Central projections of primary afferent fibers from the rat trigeminal nerve labeled with isolectin B4-HRP

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 217, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 89-92

  Kobayashi, Yasushi ^a,b   Matsumura, George ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lectin; Pain; Substantia gelatinosa; Trigeminal nerve; Unmyelinated fibers

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; LECTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0030592547     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)13056-1     Document Type: Article

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