The nucleus paragigantocellularis (PGI) is located in the rostral ventrolateral medulla and has noticeable connections with some other brain nuclei, such as locus ceruleus, nucleus raphe magnus and periaqueductal gray. In rats it is 3 mm in rostrocaudal and 1 mm in mediolateral and 1 mm in the dorsolateral aspect. Anatomically and functionally, PGI has been divided into two subnuclei, retrofaci...

Membrane trafficking of the δ-opioid receptor (DOR) from intracellular compartments to plasma membrane in central neurons, induced by various pathological conditions such as long-term opioid exposure, represents unique receptor plasticity involved in the mechanisms of long-term opioid effects in opioid addiction and opioid treatment of chronic pain. However, the signaling pathways coupled to th...

Physiological studies of neurons in raphe magnus (RM) and the adjacent nucleus reticularis magnocellularis (NRMC) have demonstrated that the response to noxious cutaneous stimulation predicts the response to opioid administration and therefore a cell's functional role in nociceptive modulation. Although visceral stimulation, like opioids, elicits antinociception, little is known about how RM an...

Pharmacological studies have suggested that serotonergic cells in RM contribute to both the inhibition and facilitation of spinal nociceptive transmission. Physiological studies in the medullary nucleus raphe magnus (RM) and adjacent nucleus reticularis magnocellularis have identified putative nociceptive-inhibitory OFF cells and nociceptive-facilitatory neurons ON cells by their responses to n...

Models of brain function predict that the recurrence of a process or state will be reflected in repeated patterns of correlated activity. Previous work on medullary raphe assembly dynamics revealed transient changes in impulse synchrony. This study tested the hypothesis that these variations in synchrony include distributed nonrandom patterns of association. Spike trains were recorded simultane...

Carlos F. Sanz-Navarro,† Per-Olof Åstrand,† De Chen,‡ Magnus Rønning,‡ Adri C. T. van Duin,§ Jonathan E. Mueller,§ and William A. Goddard III§ Department of Chemistry, Norwegian UniVersity of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian UniVersity of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway, and Materials and Process Simulatio...

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In this paper entrepreneurs are defined as agents who bring about economic change by combining their own effort with other factors of production in search of economic rents. The institutional setup is argued to determine both the supply and direction of entrepreneurial activity. Four key institutions are explored more closely: property rights protection, savings policies, taxation and the regul...

Our previous study demonstrated that persistent pain can epigenetically suppress the transcription of Gad2 [encoding glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65)] and consequently impair the inhibitory function of GABAergic synapses in central pain-modulating neurons. This contributes to the development of persistent pain sensitization. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors increased GAD65 activity c...