This study tests the hypothesis that retinoic acid not only cause the craniofacial malformations, but also cause malformation of the glands related to neural crest-the thymus, the parathyroids and the thyroid in rat fetuses prenatally exposed to retinoid.

Analysis of T cells subsets in neuromyelitis optica;

Diagnostic value of visual evoked potential and MRI in neuromyelitis optica;

Clinical observation of high-dose mythlprednisone on neuromyelitis optica;

Synaptic connections of the slow adapting lingual afferent terminals in the principal trigeminal nucleus and nucleus of spinal trigeminal tract in cats;

Calbindin D-28k-containing neurons receiving visceral and somatic nociceptive information in interstitial nucleus of the spinal trigeminal tract project to the parabrachial nuclei in the rat;

AIM: To investigate the projection of the calbindin D 28k (CB) containing neurons that receive orofacial deep structures (masseter muscles) nociceptive information from the interstitial nucleus of the spinal trigeminal tract (INⅤ) directly to nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS).

In order to investigate whether neurons containing CB in the interstitial nucleus of the spinal trigeminal tract (INV) receive the orofacial somatic nociceptive information and transmit it to nucleus of the solitary tract(NTS), the triple-labeled method of FG retrograde tracing combined with FOS and CB protein immunofluorescence histochemistry was used.