Lesions of the periaqueductal gray and rostral ventromedial medulla disrupt antinociceptive but not cardiovascular aversive conditional responses
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Lesions of the periaqueductal gray and rostral ventromedial medulla disrupt antinociceptive but not cardiovascular aversive conditional responses.
The presentation of an auditory stimulus that signals a noxious event such as foot shock results in the simultaneous expression of multiple aversive conditional responses (CRs), which include a transient elevation of arterial blood pressure (ABP) and an opioid-mediated form of hypoalgesia. Recent evidence suggests that the neural circuits responsible for the expression of these two aversive res...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.14-11-07099.1994