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July 16, 2009

Maternal deprivation in rats, cannabis, opioids

Filed under: In the News — Tags: , , — tgk1946 @ 12:20 pm

Paper from Laboratory for Physiopathology of Diseases of the Central Nervous System.

Previously, Daugé and her colleagues had shown that rats deprived of their mothers at birth become hypersensitive to the rewarding effect of morphine and heroin (substances belonging to the opiate family), and rapidly become dependent. In addition, there is a correlation between such behavioral disturbances linked to dependence, and hypoactivity of the enkephalinergic system, the endogenous opioid system.

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