Involvement of the frontal ventrolateral orbital cortex in descending inhibition of nociception mediated by the periaqueductal gray in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 142-146

  Zhang, Sun ^a   Tang, Jing Shi ^a   Yuan, Bin ^a   Jia, Hong ^a  

^a XI'AN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

nociceptive modulation; periaqueductal gray; rat; tail flick reflex; ventrolateral orbital cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TAIL FLICK TEST;

ANIMALS; COLORING AGENTS; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX;

EID: 0030940027     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13478-4     Document Type: Article

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