The onset of diffuse noxious inhibitory controls in postnatal rat pups: A c-fos study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-12

  Boucher, Tim ^a   Jennings, Ernest ^a   Fitzgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

c fos; Descending inhibition; Development; Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls; Somatosensory system

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NOCICEPTORS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRECIPITATING FACTORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0032553460     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00779-4     Document Type: Article

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