Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in the trigeminal vascular system and other brain structures related to pain in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 484, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 192-196

  Ramachandran, Roshni ^a   Ploug, Kenneth Beri ^a   Hay Schmidt, Anders ^b   Olesen, Jes ^a   Jansen Olesen, Inger ^a   Gupta, Saurabh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Migraine; Nitric oxide (NO); Nitric oxide synthase (NOS); Pain pathway; Trigeminal vascular system (TVS)

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURA MATER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MIGRAINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GREY; PIA ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 77956945305     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.08.050     Document Type: Article

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