Postnatal maturation of the spinal-bulbo-spinal loop: Brainstem control of spinal nociception is independent of sensory input in neonatal rats

Pain

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 677-686

  Schwaller, Fred ^a   Kwok, Charlie ^a   Fitzgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascending pathways; Descending control; Dorsal horn; Neonatal pain; Parabrachial nucleus; Periaqueductal gray; Receptive field; Rostroventral medulla

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HIND PAW; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; ROSTRAL VENTROMEDIAL MEDULLA; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINO BULBO SPINAL LOOP; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; NOCICEPTIVE PAIN; PATHOLOGY; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOCICEPTIVE PAIN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84962109849     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000420     Document Type: Article

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