NeuroscienceScience AdvancesPeer-reviewed
Opioidergic activation of descending pain inhibitory system underlies placebo analgesia
Hiroyuki Neyama, Yuping Wu, Yuka Nakaya…·Yilong Cui
The paper shows that opioidergic signals in the medial prefrontal cortex activate the descending pain inhibitory system to initiate placebo analgesia in neuropathic pain rats.
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