Biological implications of coeruleospinal inhibition of nociceptive processing in the spinal cord

The coeruleospinal inhibitory pathway (CSIP), the descending pathway from the nucleus locus coeruleus (LC) and the nucleus subcoeruleus (SC), is one of the centrifugal pain control systems. This review answers two questions regarding the role coeruleospinal inhibition plays in the mammalian brain. F...

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Main Authors: Tsuruoka, Masayoshi, Tamaki, Junichiro, Maeda, Masako, Hayashi, Bunsho, Inoue, Tomio
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3460321/