Organization of the descending projections from the parabrachial nucleus to the trigeminal sensory nuclear complex and spinal dorsal horn in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 383, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 94-111

  Yoshida, Atsushi ^a   Chen, Kang ^a   Moritani, Masayuki ^a   Yabuta, Neusa Harumi ^a   Nagase, Yoshitaka ^a   Takemura, Motohide ^a   Shigenaga, Yoshio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterograde transport; Descending modulation; Fluorescent tracer; Nociception; Retrograde transport

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; FLUOROGOLD; LEUKOAGGLUTININ; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE PROJECTION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; STILBAMIDINES; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0030912341     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970623)383:1<94::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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