Morphine activates neuroinflammation in a manner parallel to endotoxin.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on April 02, 2012

Authors

Xiaohui Wang1, Lisa C Loram, Khara Ramos, Armando J de Jesus, Jacob Thomas, Kui Cheng, Anireddy Reddy, Andrew A Somogyi, Mark R Hutchinson, Linda R Watkins, Hang Yin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Neuroscience, and Biofrontiers Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

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