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Drug signals enhance morphine tolerance development in hypophysectomized rats

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Abstract

Hypophysectomized and sham-operated (normal) rats were given morphine (5 mg/kg) either paired or unpaired with distinctive environmental cues. Both hypophysectomized and normal animals developed analgesic tolerance when drug effects were signaled, but little tolerance was evident in either surgery group when drug was unsignaled. Results suggest that the pituitary is not critical to associational tolerance development.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)84-85
Number of pages2
JournalPsychopharmacology
Volume79
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1983

Keywords

  • Analgesia
  • Hypophysectomy
  • Morphine tolerance
  • Pavlovian learning
  • Pituitary
  • Stress-induced antinociception

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