Corticofugal influences on thalamic neurons during nociceptive transmission in awake rats

Synapse

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 335-342

  Wang, Jin Yan ^a   Chang, Jing Yu ^b   Woodward, Donald J ^c   Baccalá, Luiz A ^d   Han, Ji Sheng ^e   Luo, Fei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Neuroscience Research Institute of North Carolina   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cingulate; Cortex; Crosscorrelation; Information flow; Nociception; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HISTOGRAM; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; CONSCIOUSNESS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

EID: 33947103626     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20375     Document Type: Article

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