Injection of orphanin FQ/nociceptin into the periaqueductal gray suppresses the forebrain-elicited vocalization in the guinea pig

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-116

  Kyuhou, Shin Ichi ^a   Gemba, Hisae ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Glutamatergic transmission; Limbic system; Opiate; ORL1; Separation call

Indexed keywords

NOCICEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GUINEA PIG; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; GUINEA PIGS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033613719     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00956-2     Document Type: Article

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