Brain sources of inhibitory input to the rat rostral ventrolateral medulla

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 521, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 213-232

  Bowman, Belinda R ^a   Kumar, Natasha N ^a   Hassan, Sarah F ^a   McMullan, Simon ^a   Goodchild, Ann K ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin B subunit; Enkephalin; GABA; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLERA TOXIN; ENKEPHALIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; PREPROENKEPHALIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CHOLERA TOXIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENKEPHALINS; FACIAL NERVE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84870040459     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23175     Document Type: Article

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