Spinal neurons activated with the urethrogenital reflex in the male rat

Brain Research

Volumn 1026, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 108-115

  Marson, Lesley ^a   Gravitt, Karla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; c fos; Dorsal gray commissure; Ejaculation; Galanin; Intermediolateral cell column

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GALANIN; PROTEIN FOS; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; EJACULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAY MATTER; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RAT; REFLEX; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINE; URETHROGENITAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GALANIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX; SEROTONIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; URETHRA;

EID: 5044228904     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.08.019     Document Type: Article

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