Subdiaphragmatic vagotomy does not prevent fever following intracerebroventricular prostaglandin E2: Further evidence for the importance of vagal afferents in immune-to-brain communication

Brain Research

Volumn 766, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 240-243

  Milligan, Erin D ^a   McGorry, Molly M ^a   Fleshner, Monika ^a   Gaykema, Ron P A ^a   Goehler, Lisa E ^a   Watkins, Linda R ^a   Maier, Steven F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

c fos; Hyperthermia; Immediate early gene; Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2); Rat; Sickness; Vagotomy

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; HYPERTHERMIA; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; THERMOREGULATION; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; DIAPHRAGM; DINOPROSTONE; FEVER; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NODOSE GANGLION; OXYTOCICS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0030931657     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00705-1     Document Type: Article

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