Activation of the parabrachio-amygdaloid pathway by immune challenge or spinal nociceptive input: A quantitative study in the rat using Fos immunohistochemistry and retrograde tract tracing

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 481, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 210-219

  Richard, Sabine ^a   Engblom, David ^b   Paues, Jakob ^b   Mackerlova, Ludmila ^b   Blomqvist, Anders ^b  

^a STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central nucleus of the amygdala; Cholera toxin subunit b; External lateral parabrachial nucleus; Formalin; Immune challenge; Pain

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; FORMALDEHYDE; PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROVOCATION TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CHOLERA TOXIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMOTIONS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NEURONS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 9744253690     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20384     Document Type: Article

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