Electrophysiological analysis for pain response by the lateral bed nucleus stria terminalis

我们发现，侧床终纹核（BST）参与了福尔马林致痛反应。相反，外侧BST的功能影响福尔马林引起的疼痛反应。这一概念表明情感和痛苦是相互关联的。CRH神经元表达于与应激相关的脑室周围下丘脑和与情绪反应流出相关的中央杏仁核等脑区。因此，在福尔马林实验中，外侧BST的CRH神经元可能参与情绪侧。为此，我们必须标记CRH神经元作为荧光，因为我们将分析膜片钳技术。因此，我们现在正在培育CRH神经元具有明亮荧光并可用于电分析的转基因小鼠。

We discovered that the lateral bed nucleus stria terminalis (BST) is involved in the pain response during formalin test. Conversely, the function of the lateral BST influences the pain response by the formalin. This concept indicates the emotion and pain is related to each other. CRH neurons are expressed the brain area such as the periventricular hypothalamus associated with stress and the central amygdala related to outflow of the emotional response. Thus, CRH neurons in the lateral BST may be involved in emotion side during the formalin test. To this end we must label CRH neurons as fluorescence since we will analyze by patch-clamp technique. So we are now generating transgenic mouse which CRH neurons have bright fluorescence and useful for electrical analyse.