The spinal dorsal horn is innervated by primary afferent fibres and contains a large number of excitatory (glutamatergic) and inhibitory (GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid)-ergic or glycinergic ...

In a paper published in the journal Neuron, researchers report that a mechanism involving the enzyme Tiam1 in dorsal horn excitatory neurons of the spinal cord both initiates and maintains ...

Notably, that tolerance and hyperalgesia continue at least one week after morphine withdrawal, suggesting that the sustained morphine treatment triggered plasticity in nerve function in the spinal ...

Unlike frogfish, the filefish uses its first dorsal fin to threaten other individuals and predators. Motor neurons of the filefish were found in the ventrolateral zone of the ventral horn ...