Localization of nitric oxide-synthesizing neurons sending projections to the dorsal raphe nucleus of the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 147-150

  Léger, Lucienne ^a   Gay, Nadine ^a   Burlet, Sophie ^a   Charnay, Yves ^b   Raymond Cespuglio, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Neuronal nitric oxide synthase immunoreactive axons; Nociception; Retrograde tracing; Sleep

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIENCEPHALON; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLERA TOXIN; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS;

EID: 0032484061     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00826-X     Document Type: Article

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