Interactions between tactile and noxious visceral inputs in rat nucleus gracilus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 362, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 162-165

  Rong, Pei Jing ^a,b,c   Zhang, Jian Liang ^a,c   Zhang, Hong Qi ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

Dorsal column nuclei; Gracilus; Interaction; Rat; Referred pain; Visceral nociception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRACILE NUCLEUS; INTESTINE DISTENSION; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPINE; TACTILE STIMULATION; THALAMUS; VISCERA;

ANIMALS; COLON; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TOUCH; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 2942562734     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.03.022     Document Type: Article

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