Facial injections of pruritogens or algogens elicit distinct behavior responses in rats and excite overlapping populations of primary sensory and trigeminal subnucleus caudalis neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1078-1088

  Klein, Amanda ^a   Carstens, Mirela Iodi ^a   Carstens, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium imaging; Itch; Pain; Scratching

Indexed keywords

ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; CAPSAICIN; CHLOROQUINE; HISTAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEEK; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; IMAGING; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RAT; SCRATCHING; SPINAL GANGLION; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FACE; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MALE; PAIN; PRURITUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SEROTONIN; TRIGEMINAL CAUDAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 80052559363     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00302.2011     Document Type: Article

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