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Science 5 September 1980:
Vol. 209. no. 4461, pp. 1132 - 1133
DOI: 10.1126/science.6250220
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Science, Vol 209, Issue 4461, 1132-1133
Copyright © 1980 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Electrical stimulation of the midbrain mediates metastatic tumor growth

RH Simon, EJ Lovett 3rd, D Tomaszek, and J Lundy

Pulmonary metastases were counted 10 days after female rats received tail-vein injections of Walker-256 carcinosarcoma cells. Previous observations that halothane anesthesia plus hind-limb amputation increases the number of metastases were confirmed. Amputation under the analgesia of electrical stimulation of the midbrain was found to increase metastatic activity. However, the stimulus-produced analgesia alone also increased the number of metastases. Systemically administered naloxone blocked the analgesic effect of midbrain stimulation but did not block the increase in the number of pulmonary metastases.


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