 Periaqueductal Gray
"Periaqueductal Gray" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Central gray matter surrounding the cerebral aqueduct in the mesencephalon. Physiologically it is probably involved in rage reactions, the lordosis reflex, feeding responses, bladder tonus, and pain.
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D010487
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.132.659.822.595 A08.186.211.653.822.595
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| Concept/Terms |
Periaqueductal Gray- Periaqueductal Gray
- Gray, Periaqueductal
- Mesencephalic Central Gray
- Central Gray, Mesencephalic
- Gray, Mesencephalic Central
- Midbrain Central Gray
- Central Gray, Midbrain
- Gray, Midbrain Central
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Periaqueductal Gray" by people in Profiles.
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Umana IC, Daniele CA, Miller BA, Abburi C, Gallagher K, Brown MA, Mason P, McGehee DS. Nicotinic modulation of descending pain control circuitry. Pain. 2017 Oct; 158(10):1938-1950.
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Cataldo G, Bernal SY, Rozengurtel S, Medina K, Bodnar RJ. Neonatal and adult gonadal hormone manipulations enhance morphine analgesia elicited from the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray in female rats. Int J Neurosci. 2010 Apr; 120(4):265-72.
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Mason P. Ventromedial medulla: pain modulation and beyond. J Comp Neurol. 2005 Dec 05; 493(1):2-8.
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Mason P. Deconstructing endogenous pain modulations. J Neurophysiol. 2005 Sep; 94(3):1659-63.
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Palmer AA, Printz MP. Differences between SHR and WKY following the airpuff startle stimulus in the number of Fos expressing, RVLM projecting neurons. Clin Exp Hypertens. 2002 Apr; 24(3):125-39.
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Dobyns WB, Guerrini R, Czapansky-Beilman DK, Pierpont ME, Breningstall G, Yock DH, Bonanni P, Truwit CL. Bilateral periventricular nodular heterotopia with mental retardation and syndactyly in boys: a new X-linked mental retardation syndrome. Neurology. 1997 Oct; 49(4):1042-7.
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Gao K, Kim YH, Mason P. SEROTONERGIC pontomedullary neurons are not activated by antinociceptive stimulation in the periaqueductal gray. J Neurosci. 1997 May 01; 17(9):3285-92.
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Traub RJ, Solodkin A, Gebhart GF. NADPH-diaphorase histochemistry provides evidence for a bilateral, somatotopically inappropriate response to unilateral hindpaw inflammation in the rat. Brain Res. 1994 May 30; 647(1):113-23.
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Chandler MJ, Garrison DW, Brennan TJ, Foreman RD. Effects of chemical and electrical stimulation of the midbrain on feline T2-T6 spinoreticular and spinal cell activity evoked by cardiopulmonary afferent input. Brain Res. 1989 Sep 04; 496(1-2):148-64.
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