Local connections between the columns of the periaqueductal gray matter: A case for intrinsic neuromodulation

Brain Research

Volumn 784, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 329-336

  Jansen, Arthur S P ^a   Farkas, Eszter ^a   Mac Sams, J ^a   Loewy, Arthur D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Cardiovascular regulation; Defense reaction; Emotion; Pain; Periaqueductal gray matter; Precommissural nucleus; Pseudorabies virus; Stellate ganglion

Indexed keywords

LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSOR RESPONSE; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EMOTION; FIGHTING; IONTOPHORESIS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STELLATE GANGLION;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IONTOPHORESIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032536403     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01293-6     Document Type: Article

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