An ultrastructural study of the projections from the midbrain periaqueductal gray to spinally projecting, serotonin-immunoreactive neurons of the medullary nucleus raphe magnus in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 443, Issue 1-2, 1988, Pages 383-388

  Lakos, Stephen ^a   Basbaum, Allan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Descending control; Immunocytochemistry; Nucleus raphe magnus; Pain modulation; Periaqueductal gray; Serotonin; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; SEROTONIN; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; CYTOCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023834888     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(88)91638-1     Document Type: Article

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