A model system for cellular neurotoxicology involving the use of primary cultures from various brain regions, is presented. Morphine affected protein synthesis in astroglial enriched cultures dose-dependently showing increases and decreases with time. A differential sensitivity to morphine was considered probably to be due to the cellular heterogeneity and specialisation found even in small brain regions.
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