• Pain · Jun 1975

    Analgesia induced by electrical stimulation of the inferior centralis nucleus of the raphe in the cat.

    • J L Oliveras, F Redjemi, G Guilbaud, and J M Besson.
    • Laboratoire de Physiologie des Centres Nerveux, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75016 Paris France.
    • Pain. 1975 Jun 1; 1 (2): 139-145.

    AbstractIn the cat, electrical stimulation of the inferior central nucleus of the raphe induces a powerful analgesia. This stimulation totally suppresses the behavioural reactions elicited by strong pinches applied to the tail or to the four limbs; it strongly modifies the threshold of the jaw opening reflex obtained by tooth pulp stimulation and considerably affects the behavioural reactions elicited by continuing such stimulation. The results can be considered as evidence that the mechanism of analgesia from the inferior raphe nucleus is similar to that already described in the dorsal raphe nucleus. The analgesia obtained by stimulation of raphe nuclei seems to be sustained by serotoninergic mechanisms and relationships between these are discussed. In preliminary experiments, analgesia induced by CI stimulation has been suppressed by administration of naloxone, a specific opiate antagonist.

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