Capsaicin-resistant vagal afferent fibers in the rat gastrointestinal tract: Anatomical identification and functional integrity

Brain Research

Volumn 746, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 195-206

  Berthoud, Hans Rudolf ^a   Patterson, Laurel M ^a   Willing, Alison E ^a   Mueller, Karin ^b   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^b  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

c Fos expression; Esophagus; Gastric distension; Nodose ganglion DiI in vivo tracing; Solitary nucleus; Stomach; Visceral afferent

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; STOMACH DISTENSION; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; BALLOON DILATATION; CAPSAICIN; CARBOCYANINES; ESOPHAGUS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NODOSE GANGLION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; STOMACH; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0031029987     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01222-X     Document Type: Article

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