Increased formalin-induced pain and expression of fos neurons in the lumbar spinal cord of prenatally stressed infant rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 403, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 222-226

  Butkevich, Irina P ^a   Barr, Gordon A ^b   Mikhailenko, Victor A ^a   Otellin, Vladimir A ^a  

^a PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; c Fos; Infant rats; Persistent pain; Prenatal stress; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PROTEIN FOS; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; NEURONS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPINAL CORD; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33745752971     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.04.059     Document Type: Article

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