A role for spinal lamina I neurokinin-1-positive neurons in cold thermoreception in the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 723-732

  Doyle, C A ^a   Hunt, S P ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold; Fos; Neurokinin 1 receptor; Spinal cord; Substance P; Thermoreception

Indexed keywords

NEUROKININ; PROTEIN C FOS; SUBSTANCE P RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; THERMAL STIMULATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; HINDLIMB; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANCE P;

EID: 0032931901     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00623-X     Document Type: Article

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