Morphine preferentially activates the periaqueductal gray–rostral ventromedial medullary pathway in the male rat: A potential mechanism for sex differences in antinociception
- 1 June 2007
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Neuroscience
- Vol. 147 (2) , 456-468
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.03.053
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