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A leptin-mediated central mechanism in analgesia-enhanced opioid reward in rats.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 16 Jul 2014
Lim Grewo, Kim Hyangin, McCabe Michael F, Chou Chiu-Wen, Wang Shuxing, Chen Lucy L, Marota John J A, Blood Anne, Breiter Hans C, Mao Jianren
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Opioid analgesics are commonly used in chronic pain management despite a potential risk of rewarding. However, it remains unclear whether opioid analgesia would enhance the opioid rewarding effect thereby contributing to opioid rewarding. Utilizing a rat paradigm of conditioned place preference (CPP) combined with ankle monoarthritis as a condition of persistent nociception, we showed that analgesia induced by...
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