Immune stimulation induces Fos expression in brainstem amygdala afferents

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-231

  Tkacs, Nancy C ^a   Li, Jianhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Central amygdala; Fever; Limbic system; Neural immune interactions; Parabrachial nucleus; Visceral afferents

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MALE; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; ENDOTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, FOS; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0033555646     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(98)00167-1     Document Type: Article

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