Cooling of the urinary bladder activates neurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 351-355

  Jiang, Chong He ^a   Hermanson, Ola ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Barrington's nucleus; C fibre; c fos; Immunohistochemistry; Lamina I; Parabrachial; Substantia gelatinosa

Indexed keywords

MENTHOL; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER FILLING; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COLD; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MENTHOL; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESSURE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THERMORECEPTORS; URINARY BLADDER; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 1542320251     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200402090-00028     Document Type: Article

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