• Brain research · Jan 1988

    The effect of systemic cocaine on spinal nociceptive reflex activity in the rat.

    • A Pertovaara, C R Belczynski, T J Morrow, and K L Casey.
    • Department of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.
    • Brain Res. 1988 Jan 12; 438 (1-2): 286-90.

    AbstractIn the anesthetized rat, cocaine (25 mg/kg i.p.), enhanced the frequency potentiation of nociceptively evoked polysynaptic discharges but did not affect the polysynaptic reflex discharge to single nociceptive stimuli or the habituation of this reflex to repetitive pinch stimuli. The non-nociceptive, short-latency reflex discharge was suppressed for 10-15 min after cocaine administration. The neurogenic extravasation response to antidromic cutaneous C-fiber stimulation was unaffected by cocaine. These findings suggest that systemic cocaine, in doses analgesic for the rat, does not suppress spinal nociceptive reflexes.

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