UI - 000029

AU - Cruzado JA

TI - Peptidos opiaceos, analgesia inducida por estres y sistemas endogenos de control del dolor. (Opioid peptides, stress-induced analgesia, and endogenous pain-inhibiting systems.)

AB - IN: U Complutense de Madrid, Spain LA: Spanish AB: Reviews the physiological and behavioral

roles of opioid peptides. Emphasis is on their chemical structure, classification, anatomical distribution, and

role in pain modulation, with descriptions given of the basic neural locations involved in pain control.

Involvement of a dysfunction of the endogenous opiate system in the etiopathogenesis of chronic pain is

proposed. The role of opioid peptides in the neural mechanisms of reinforcement, memory,

psychopathology, and cardiovascular control is summarized. (121 ref) (PsycLIT Database Copyright 1987

American Psychological Assn, all rights reserved) KP: physiological & behavioral characteristics of opioid

peptides; pain modulation AN: 74-03300

SO - Informes de Psicologia 1985;4:39-66