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Naloxone-precipitated morphine withdrawal behavior and brain IL-1β expression: comparison of different mouse strains.
Brain, behavior, and immunity - 1 Aug 2011
Liu Liang, Coller Janet K, Watkins Linda R, Somogyi Andrew A, Hutchinson Mark R
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The development of opioid dependence involves classical neuronal opioid receptor activation and is due in part to engagement of glia causing a proinflammatory response. Such opioid-induced glial activation occurs, at least in part, through a non-classical opioid mechanism involving Toll-like-receptor 4 (TLR4). Among the immune factors released following the opioid-glia-TLR4 interaction, interleukin-1β (IL-1β)...
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