Postnatal morphine administration alters
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Christopher M. Traudt; Ivan Tkac; Kathleen M. Ennis; Leah M. Sutton; Daniel M. M
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Morphine is frequently used as an analgesic and sedative in preterm infants. Adult rats exposed to morphine have an altered hippocampal neurochemical profile and decreased neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. To evaluate whether neonatal rats are similarly affected, rat