Nonselective innervation of lamina i projection neurons by cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript peptide (CART)-immunoreactive fibres in the rat spinal dorsal horn

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2375-2387

  Kozsurek, Márk ^a   Lukácsi, Erika ^a   Fekete, Csaba ^b,c   Puskár, Zita ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Galanin; Multiple fluorescent immunohistochemistry; Neurokinin 1 receptor; Nociception; Substance P

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; GALANIN; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; DENDRITES; GALANIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SUBSTANCE P;

EID: 67449090698     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06773.x     Document Type: Article

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