Organization of pERK-immunoreactive cells in trigeminal spinal nucleus caudalis and upper cervical cord following capsaicin injection into oral and craniofacial regions in rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 507, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1428-1440

  Noma, Noboru ^a   Tsuboi, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kondo, Masahiro ^a   Matsumoto, Mitsuhiko ^a   Sessle, Barry J ^b   Kitagawa, Junichi ^c   Saito, Kimiko ^a   Iwata, Koichi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MAP kinase; Nociceptive neuron; Orofacial pain; Somatotopic organization

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CHEEK MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; HARD PALATE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOWER LIP; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TONGUE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FACE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOCICEPTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY SYSTEM AGENTS; SPINAL CORD; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS, SPINAL; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 40949110122     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21620     Document Type: Article

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