The raphe magnus/pallidus regulates sweat secretion and skin vasodilation of the cat forepaw pad: A preliminary electrical stimulation study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 415, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-287

  Asahina, Masato ^a   Sakakibara, Ryuji ^a   Liu, Zhi ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a   Yamanaka, Yoshitaka ^a   Nakazawa, Ken ^a   Shimizu, Eiji ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Medulla; Raphe nucleus; Skin blood flow; Sweat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREFOOT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SWEATING; VASODILATATION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CATS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FORELIMB; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROCIRCULATION; RAPHE NUCLEI; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SWEAT GLANDS; SWEATING; VASODILATION; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 33947109617     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.01.033     Document Type: Article

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