A descending pathway from the lateral/ventrolateral PAG to the rostroventral medulla mediating the vasomotor response evoked by social defeat stress in rats.

M Matsuyama, J Horiuchi - American Journal of Physiology …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
… stimulation by excitatory amino acid microinjection within the l… of the neurons in the regions
by excitatory amino acids. 393 … the PAG of the cat at which microinjection of DLH, elicited the …

[HTML][HTML] Defensive vocalizations and motor asymmetry triggered by disinhibition of the periaqueductal gray in non-human primates

PA Forcelli, HF Waguespack, L Malkova - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… is mediated by a network of structures including the midbrain … of a full dose response for
bicuculline microinjection into the … Similarly, respiratory-related neurons within the PAG burst …

Muscle vasodilator response via potential adrenaline secretion to L-cysteine microinjected in rostral ventrolateral medulla of rats

Y Takemoto - Autonomic Neuroscience, 2020 - Elsevier
… that the thiol amino acid L-cysteine microinjected into rat … many microinjected sites that led
coactivation of three neurons and … , microinjections of EAA in cats have shown that topography …

Neuronal and glial factors contributing to sex differences in opioid modulation of pain

DL Averitt, LN Eidson, HH Doyle… - …, 2019 - nature.com
medulla in the brainstem and the dorsal horn of the spinal cord at the level of incoming
stimulation from sensory neurons of … As microinjection of morphine into the RVM also results in …

Orchestration of innate and conditioned defensive actions by the periaqueductal gray

FMCV Reis, D Mobbs, NS Canteras, A Adhikari - Neuropharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
… From the midbrain tectum, excitatory inputs originating in the … ) is sufficient to activate
NOS-positive neurons in the dorsolateral PAG. … view of the circuits likely to mediate such …

Modulation of NTS function by multiple descending inputs: an overview

KM Spyer - Nucleus of the solitary tract, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
medulla and the A5 group of norepinephrine-containing … actions on NTS neurones and
these are mediated by GABA. … can be mimicked by local microinjections of GABA into the NTS …

Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour

P Tovote, MS Esposito, P Botta, F Chaudun, JP Fadok… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
… these neurons serve a more general role in mediating … the output pathway mediating the
freezing response. Analysis of … –rabies 36 into the same location. Mice were killed 7 days …

Periaqueductal gray sheds light on dark areas of psychopathology

DT George, R Ameli, GF Koob - Trends in neurosciences, 2019 - cell.com
… In 1928, Bard transected the cat brain at multiple levels and … Lesions of the dorsal PAG
(dPAG) and vPAG blocked opioid-mediated … nucleus of medulla neurons in the medulla, possibly …

Orexin (hypocretin) participates in central autonomic regulation during fight-or-flight response

T Kuwaki - Peptides, 2021 - Elsevier
Microinjections of adenosine into the rostral ventrolateral medulla augmented the increase
… From these results, we concluded that orexin-containing neurons in the hypothalamus act as …

Acquisition and expression of fear memories are distinctly modulated along the dorsolateral periaqueductal gray axis of rats exposed to predator odor

RR Souza, AP Carobrez - Behavioural brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
… The dorsolateral region of the midbrain periaqueductal gray (… or AP5 microinjections into
the rostral dlPAG 5 min before cat … synthase (nNOS) immunoreactive neurons have also been …