Location and characteristics of nitric oxide synthase in sheep spinal cord and its interaction with α 2-adrenergic and cholinergic antinociception

Anesthesiology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 890-899

  Xu, Zemin ^a   Li, Ping ^a   Tong, Chuanyao ^a   Figueroa, Jorge ^b   Tobin, Joseph R ^a   Eisenach, James C ^a,c  

^a Department of Anesthesia ^*  (United States)

^b Depts Obstet Gynecol Physiol P

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agonists: muscarinic; Analgesia, spinal: nitric oxide; nitric oxide synthase; Sympathetic nervous system, adrenergic agonists: clonidine

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CARBON 14; CITRULLINE; CLONIDINE; NEOSTIGMINE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANALGESIA; ANIMALS; CLONIDINE; FEMALE; NEOSTIGMINE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SHEEP; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0029866187     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199604000-00017     Document Type: Article

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