Effect of lesions of A5 or A7 noradrenergic cell group or surgical transection of brainstem catecholamine pathways on plasma catecholamine levels in rats injected subcutaneously by formalin

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 247-254

  Mravec, Boris ^a,b   Bodnar, Ibolya ^c   Uhereczky, Gabriela ^c   Kvetnansky, Richard ^a   Palkovits, Miklos ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Catecholamine bundles; Epinephrine; Norepinephrine; Pain; Sympatho adrenal system

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; FORMALDEHYDE; NORADRENALIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM INJURY; BRAINSTEM TRANSECTION; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PAIN; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADRENERGIC NEURONS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; EPINEPHRINE; FORMALDEHYDE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84867769951     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: 13384325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/gpb_2012_029     Document Type: Article

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