Adrenalectomy increases reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase activity in the rat spinal trigeminal subnucleus caudalis

Brain Research

Volumn 712, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 143-147

  Hathaway, Charles B ^a   Collins, Thomas P ^a   Bereiter, David A ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Dorsal horn; Glucocorticoid; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Nociception

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; NITRIC OXIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0029921148     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01461-6     Document Type: Article

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