MOR-1-immunoreactive neurons in the dorsal horn of the rat spinal cord: Evidence for nonsynaptic innervation by substance P-containing primary afferents and for selective activation by noxious thermal stimuli

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1306-1316

  Spike, R C ^a   Puskar Z ^a,b   Sakamoto, H ^a   Stewart, W ^a   Watt, C ^a   Todd, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Analgesia; c Fos; Endomorphin 2; Lamina II; Morphine

Indexed keywords

ENDOMORPHIN 2; FORMALDEHYDE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NALOXONE; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; THERMAL STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HEAT; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NOCICEPTORS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PAIN; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SUBSTANCE P; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036459968     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.01969.x     Document Type: Article

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