Involvement of the spinoparabrachial pathway in inflammatory nociceptive processes: A c-Fos protein study in the awake rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 397, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 10-28

  Buritova, Jaroslava ^a   Besson, Jean Marie ^a   Bernard, Jean François ^a,b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

C Fos; Carrageenan; Dorsal horn; Nociception; Parabrachial; Solitary tract nucleus

Indexed keywords

CARRAGEENAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CARRAGEENAN; INFLAMMATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAIN; PONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032551532     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980720)397:1<10::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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