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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Mar 29.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2003 Jun;103(3):285–302. doi: 10.1016/s0304-3959(02)00457-8

Table 3.

ED50 values (mean ± 1 SEM) for morphine antinociception on the 50°C hotplatea

Males
Females
Treatment group ED50 N Treatment group ED50 N
Sham-D  5.65 ± 0.60  9
Sham-P  6.82 ± 1.26  7
Sham  5.61 ± 0.88*,**  8 Sham-E 10.46 ± 0.93*,*** 10
GDX + 0  9.49 ± 0.93 11 GDX + 0  6.43 ± 1.05 11
GDX + T (low)  5.30 ± 0.64*  8 GDX + E2 (low) 15.61 ± 1.26* 11
GDX + T (high)  5.34 ± 0.90*  8 GDX + E2 (high) 10.07 ± 1.35  9
GDX + E2 10.35 ± 1.43 11 GDX + E2 (low)/P4 13.10 ± 1.05*  8
GDX + DHT 10.91 ± 1.93  7 GDX + E2 (high)/P4 11.60 ± 1.00* 10
GDX + E2/DHT  6.80 ± 0.89 10 GDX + P4  6.31 ± 1.18 11
GDX + T 14.03 ± 1.81* 10
a

For treatment group abbreviations see Table 2.

*

Significantly different from GDX + 0 rats of the same sex, P ≤ 0.05, Dunnett's.

**

Significantly different from sham-E females, P ≤ 0.05, t-test

***

Significantly different from sham-D and sham-P female rats, P ≤ 0.05, Student–Newman–Keuls.