Publication: Modifications in the distribution of met-enkephalin in the pons of the cat, following the intravenous administration of clonidine: An immunocytochemical experimental study
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Date
1998
Authors
Vazquez, J. ; Muñoz Madrid, Juan ; García, J.C.
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Murcia : F. Hernández
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Abstract
The distribution of rnet-enkephalin in the cat
and its rnodifications following the stirnulation by
intravenous clonidine, was studied with indirect
irnrnunocytochernical techniques. We observed a
decrease in the irnrnunoreactivity of rnet-enkephalin
following the adrninistration of clonidine, relative to the
controls, in the following structures: locus coeruleus,
nucleus cuneforrnis, forrnatio reticularis, nucleus
gigantocellularis, nucleus reticularis lateralis, nucleus
reticularis, nucleus reticularis parvocellularis, nucleus
sensorius superior n. trigernini, nucleus raphes,
substantia grisea periventricularis, nucleus erninentiae
teretis, colliculus inferior, nucleus rnotorius n. trigemini,
nucleus tracto spinalis n. trigernini, tractus spinalis n.
trigernini and nucleus tracto rnesencephalici n. trigernini.
These experimental observations link the irnrnunoreactivity
changes to the structures that are associated
with the direct action of clonidine and conclude that the
pars rnetencephalinergicus of the efferent pontine
pathway of pain is in rnorpho-functional relationship
with the analgesia produced by clonidine; an analgesic
of an endogenous opiate character.
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