Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 54, Issue 12 , Pages 1136-1142 , December 2009

Role of the spinal trigeminal nucleus in the rat autonomic reflex

  • Satoko Koeda

      Affiliations

    • Division of Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Oral Medicine and Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
    • ,
  • Hisayoshi Ishii

      Affiliations

    • Division of Physiology, Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan
    • ,
  • Satoshi Kuchiiwa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan
    • ,
  • Hiroshi Izumi

      Affiliations

    • Division of Physiology, Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 133 23 1239; fax: +81 133 23 1402.

,Accepted 26 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2009.08.008

Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 54, Issue 12 , Pages 1136-1142 , December 2009

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