Quick Hit of Opioids May Get at Root of Chronic Pain (3 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Quick Hit of Opioids May Get at Root of Chronic Pain (3 of 8)

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This image illustrates the two principle types of neurons in the spinal dorsal horn (up is dorsal, left is medial). In green: inhibitory neurons and in red: all other neurons. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 13, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. R. Drdla-Schutting at Medical University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria, and colleagues, was titled, “Erasure of a Spinal Memory Trace of Pain by a Brief, High-Dose Opioid Administration.”

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