Spinal pathways mediating coeruleospinal antinociception in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 362, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 236-239

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

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antinociception; Locus coeruleus; Spinal pathways; Subcoeruleus

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INHIBITION KINETICS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 2442464601     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.03.026     Document Type: Article

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