Acute capsaicin injection increases nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase staining independent of Fos activation in the rat dorsolateral periaqueductal gray

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 404, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 288-293

  Okere, Chuma O ^a   Waterhouse, Barry D ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Dorsolateral periaqueductal gray; NADPH diaphorase; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CAPSAICIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN FOS; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 33746295018     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.05.065     Document Type: Article

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