Noxious stimulation excites serotonergic neurons: A comparison between the lateral paragigantocellular reticular and the raphe magnus nuclei

Pain

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 647-659

  Gau, Rémi ^a,b,c   Sévoz Couche, Caroline ^a   Hamon, Michel ^a,b,c   Bernard, Jean François ^a,b,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CENTRE DE PSYCHIATRIE ET NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Electrophysiology; Noxious stimuli; Pain modulation; Paragigantocellular nucleus; Raphe magnus; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN STEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LATERAL PARAGIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84878011790     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.09.012     Document Type: Article

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