Effects on c-Fos expression in the PAG and thalamus by selective input via tetrodotoxin-resistant afferent fibres from muscle and skin

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 270-278

  Gholami, Soghra ^a   Lambertz, Daniela ^b   Hoheisel, Ulrich ^c   Mense, Siegfried ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

c Fos immunoreactivity; Muscle; Nociception; Skin; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THALAMUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TETRODOTOXIN; THALAMUS;

EID: 33750037983     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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