Central and peripheral noradrenergic responses to 14 days of spaceflight (SLS-2) or hindlimb suspension in rats

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 458-462

  Fagette, Sophie ^a   Somody, Laurence ^a   Koubi, Harry ^b   Fareh, Jeannette ^a   Viso, Michel ^c   Gharib, Claude ^a   Gauquelln, Guillemette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HINDLIMB; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-58 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; KIDNEY; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; SPACE FLIGHT; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0029983425     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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