Augmentation of nociceptive reflexes and chronic deafferentation pain by chemical lesions of either dopaminergic terminals or midbrain dopaminergic neurons

Brain Research

Volumn 751, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-12

  Saadé, Nayef E ^a   Atweh, Samir F ^a   Bahuth, Nadia B ^a   Jabbur, Suhayl J ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

central pain; deafferentation pain; dopamine; frontal lobe; nociception; Parkinson's disease; striatum; substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DENERVATION; DOPAMINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; KAINIC ACID; LIGATION; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURONS; NOCICEPTORS; OXIDOPAMINE; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX; SCIATIC NERVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYMPATHOLYTICS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0031000857     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01164-X     Document Type: Article

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