Selective innervation of NK1 receptor-lacking lamina i spinoparabrachial neurons by presumed nonpeptidergic Ad nociceptors in the rat

Pain

Volumn 155, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2291-2300

  Baseer, Najma ^a   Al Baloushi, Abdullah S ^b   Watanabe, Masahiko ^c   Shehab, Safa A S ^b   Todd, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin B subunit; Dorsal horn; Lamina I projection neuron; Spinal cord; Transganglionic tracing

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; SUBSTANCE P; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; CHOLERA TOXIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GIANT CELL; INNERVATION; LAMINA I; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTIVE PAIN; NONHUMAN; NONPEPTIDERGIC ADELTA NOCICEPTOR; PAIN RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINOPARABRACHIAL NEURON; SYNAPSE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; SYNAPTOSOME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLERA TOXIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NOCICEPTORS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SUBSTANCE P; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84923565468     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2014.08.023     Document Type: Article

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