Identification of oxytocin receptor in the dorsal horn and nociceptive dorsal root ganglion neurons

Neuropeptides

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 117-123

  Moreno Lopez Y ^a   Martinez Lorenzana G ^a   Condes Lara M ^a   Rojas Piloni, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Nociception; Oxytocin; Pain; Paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SKIN; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOCICEPTORS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; STILBAMIDINES;

EID: 84875278508     PISSN: 01434179     EISSN: 15322785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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