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Abstract
In lightly ananesthetised rats, electrical stimulation in the dorsal part of the periaqueductal grey matter (dPAG) produced an increase in the latency of the tail flick response accompanied by an increase in blood pressure and heart rate. Microinjection of 40-50nmol 5-HT bilaterally into the rostral part of nucleus paragigantocellularis lateralis (PGL) at the level of the facial nucleus attenuated the cardiovascular response to stimulation of the dPAG but had no effect on the analgesia. It is suggested that cardiovascular control neurones, but not the pain control neurones in the rostral part of PGL are subject to inhibitory serotonergic modulation.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID: 2352838 DOI: 10.1007/bf00370249
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pflugers Arch ISSN: 0031-6768 Impact factor: 3.657