Cholecystokinin and enkephalin in brain stem pain modulating circuits

Endogenous Pain Control Systems: Brainstem Spinal Pathways and Endorphin Circuitry

1984 • 2,580 citations

Neurotransmitters in Nociceptive Modulatory Circuits

1991 • 970 citations

Enkephalin systems in diencephalon and brainstem of the rat

1983 • 287 citations

The nuclei of origin of brain stem enkephalin and substance P projections to the rodent nucleus raphe magnus

1982 • 147 citations

The periaqueductal gray projections to the rat spinal trigeminal, raphe magnus, gigantocellular pars alpha and paragigantocellular nuclei arise from separate neurons

1983 • 116 citations

The periaqueductal gray-raphe magnus projection contains somatostatin, neurotensin and serotonin but not cholecystokinin

1983 • 114 citations

Evidence for cholecystokinin-like immunoreactive neurons in the rat medulla oblongata which project to the spinal cord

1984 • 109 citations

Medullary μ and δ opioid receptors modulate mesencephalic morphine analgesia in rats

1993 • 92 citations

Endogenous opioids acting at a medullary μ-opioid receptor contribute to the behavioral antinociception produced by GABA antagonism in the midbrain periaqueductal gray

1996 • 86 citations

The antinociceptive effects of SCH-32615, a neutral endopeptidase (enkephalinase) inhibitor, microinjected into the periaqueductal, ventral medulla and amygdala

1990 • 65 citations

Cholecystokinin-octapeptide antagonizes morphine analgesia in periaqueductal gray of the rat

1989 • 60 citations

A confocal laser microscopic study of enkephalin-immunoreactive appositions onto physiologically identified neurons in the rostral ventromedial medulla

1992 • 25 citations