Emetic responses and neural activity in young musk shrews during the breast-feeding/weaning period: Comparison between the high and low emetic response strains using a shaking stimulus

Experimental Animals

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 301-307

  Ito, Hisao ^a   Nishibayashi, Mitsuru ^a   Maeda, Seishi ^a   Seki, Makoto ^a   Ebukuro, Susumu ^b  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fos immunohistochemistry; High emetic response; Low emetic response; Motion sickness; Suncus murinus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BREAST FEEDING; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECTIVORE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS; VOMITING; WEANING; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; LACTATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLISM; MOTION; MOTION SICKNESS; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHREW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUCKLING; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALIA; SUNCUS; SUNCUS MURINUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LACTATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTION; MOTION SICKNESS; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SHREWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VAGUS NERVE; VOMITING; WEANING;

EID: 24944455188     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.54.301     Document Type: Article

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