Medullary dorsal horn neurons providing axons to both the parabrachial nucleus and thalamus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 498, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 539-551

  Li, Jinlian ^a   Xiong, Kanghui ^a   Pang, Youwang ^a   Dong, Yulin ^a   Kaneko, Takeshi ^b,d   Mizuno, Noboru ^c  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axon collateral; Dual fluorescence retrograde labeling; Pain; Spinal trigeminal nucleus; Trigeminoparabrachial tract; Trigeminothalamic tract

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; RHODAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE PROJECTION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAIN; PONS; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS, SPINAL;

EID: 33747161299     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21068     Document Type: Article

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