Adrenal medullary tissue transplants in the rat spinal cord reduce pain sensitivity

Adrenal chromaffin cells contain and release several neuroactive substances which induce analgesia when injected directly into the spinal cord (e.g. opioid peptides and catecholamines). Furthermore, the release of these substances can be induced by nicotine. In order to determine whether adrenal med...

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