Laryngeal afferent stimulation enhances fos immunoreactivity in periaqueductal gray in the cat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 409, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 411-423

  Ambalavanar, R ^a   Tanaka, Y ^a,b   Damirjian, M ^a   Ludlow, C L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adductor reflex; Electrical stimulation; Immunohistochemistry; Superior laryngeal nerve; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REFLEX; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033526896     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990705)409:3<411::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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