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From: Attenuation of myogenic orofacial nociception and mechanical hypersensitivity by viral mediated enkephalin overproduction in male and female rats

Figure 6

Experiment #3: Human and rat met-enkephalin in various tissues after injection of herpes virus expressing the enkephalin transgene. Various neuronal tissues were removed from male rats four days after injection (see Experiment #3, Table 1) and the total amount of enkephalin protein was quantitated by RIA. Measurements were made in the A) mental nerve, B) masseter nerve, C) trigeminal ganglia and D) the trigeminal nucleus caudalis. Values are the means ± SEM. An asterisk indicates a significant difference (p < 0.05) between the SHZ control group and the SHPE virus group. See Table 2 for the number of animals per group.

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