Identification of sympathetic premotor neurons in medullary raphe regions mediating fever and other thermoregulatory functions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5370-5380

  Nakamura, Kazuhiro ^a   Matsumura, Kiyoshi ^a   Hübschle, Thomas ^b   Nakamura, Yoshiko ^a   Hioki, Hiroyuki ^a   Fujiyama, Fumino ^a   Boldogköi, Zsolt ^c   König, Matthias ^b   Thiel, Heinz Jürgen ^b   Gerstberger, Rüdiger ^b   Kobayashi, Shigeo ^a   Kaneko, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Fever; Glutamate; Premotor neuron; Prostaglandin E2; Raphe; Sympathetic nervous system; Thermoregulation; Vesicular glutamate transporter

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 3; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEDULLARY RAPHE; NONHUMAN; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THERMOREGULATION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, ACIDIC; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CARRIER PROTEINS; DINOPROSTONE; FEVER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SINDBIS VIRUS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; THERMOGENESIS; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 2942595922     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1219-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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