Stimulation of the nucleus locus coeruleus/subcoeruleus suppresses visceromotor responses to colorectal distention in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 381, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 97-101

  Tsuruoka, Masayoshi ^a   Maeda, Masako ^a   Inoue, Tomio ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal distention; Locus coeruleus; Subcoeruleus; Suppression; Visceromotor response

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL REFLEX; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; AIR; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALLOON; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXAMINATION; INTESTINE DISTENSION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; RECTUM; VISCERA;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANIMALS; COLON; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM; REFLEX; VISCERA;

EID: 18844448131     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.02.005     Document Type: Article

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