Title : Excitatory and inhibitory effects of opiates in the rat vas deferens: a dual mechanism of opiate action.

Pub. Date : 1980 Oct 3

PMID : 6158098






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1 Both natural (-)-morphine and its unnatural enantiomer (+)-morphine exert an excitatory action on electrically stimulated contractions of rat vas deferens. Morphine arginine vasopressin Rattus norvegicus
2 Both natural (-)-morphine and its unnatural enantiomer (+)-morphine exert an excitatory action on electrically stimulated contractions of rat vas deferens. Morphine arginine vasopressin Rattus norvegicus
3 The view that the rat vas deferens is devoid of morphine receptors is now seen as arising from a reverse example of morphine"s dual action: the masking of the inhibitory action of morphine by its concomitant and more potent excitatory action. Morphine arginine vasopressin Rattus norvegicus