Commissural NTS contributes to pressor responses to glutamate injected into the medial NTS of awake rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 270, Issue 6 39-6, 1996, Pages

  Colombari, Eduardo ^b   Menani, José Vanderlei ^b   Talman, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

arterial pressure; baroreceptor; chemoreceptor; excitatory amino acids; KCN; medulla; nucleus tractus solitarii

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; POTASSIUM CYANIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN INJURY; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYSIS; HEART RATE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

EID: 0029846568     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1996.270.6.r1220     Document Type: Article

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