Novel role for the pontine micturition center, Barrington's nucleus: Evidence for coordination of colonic and forebrain activity

Brain Research

Volumn 784, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 355-361

  Pavcovich, Luis A ^a   Yang, Ming ^b   Miselis, Richard R ^b   Valentino, Rita J ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrington's nucleus; Distal colon; Irritable bowel syndrome; Locus coeruleus; Pontine micturition center; Pseudorabies virus; Retrograde tracing; Transsynaptic tracing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; IRRITABLE COLON; LOCUS CERULEUS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MICTURITION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT;

ANIMALS; COLON; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PONS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; URINATION;

EID: 0032536340     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01178-5     Document Type: Article

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