Responses of neurones in the medullary raphe nuclei to inputs from visceral nociceptors and the ventrolateral periaqueductal grey in the rat

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 485-500

  Snowball, Rachel K ^a   Dampney, Roger A L ^b   Lumb, Bridget M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLADDER DISTENSION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SPLANCHNIC NERVE;

EID: 0030924226     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1997.sp004041     Document Type: Article

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