Setting the Stage for Pain: Opioid Receptors and Pain Modulation |
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| Air date: | Monday, April 01, 2002, 12:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Neuroscience |
| Description: | Dr. Fields has primary appointments in the Departments of Neurology and Physiology at the University of California at San Francisco. He has carried out fundamental studies on the neural circuitry underlying pain modulation. Much of his work has focussed on brainstem neurons whose activity controls behavioral responses to painful stimulation. Recently he has investigated the cellular basis for conditional hyperalgesia or analgesia by the opioid-related peptide nociceptin/orphanin FQ, and he has turned part of his attention to cellular mechanisms underlying affective aspects of pain. His talk will focus on endogenous opioid peptides, opioid receptors, and pain. More information on Dr. Fields work can be found at http://www.ucsf.edu/neurosc/faculty/neuro_fields.html. For more information about NIH Neuroscience Seminars visit http://neuroseries.info.nih.gov |
| Author: | Howard Fields, M.D., PH.D., University of California, San Francisco |
| Runtime: | 75 minutes |
| Rights: | This is a work of the United States Government. No copyright exists on this material. It may be disseminated freely. |
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| CIT File ID: | 10881 |
| CIT Live ID: | 1041 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?10881 |