Neuroimaging of Cortical and Subcortical Respiratory Control Centres and their Modulation by Opioid analgesics
Opioids drugs are a mainstay for the treatment of acute and chronic pain, however their use is limited by potentially fatal depression of breathing. In this thesis we have set out to identify networks of respiratory control and to investigate the effects of the opioid drug remifentanil upon areas of...
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University of Oxford
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490345 |