Muscimol acts in dorsomedial but not paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus to suppress cardiovascular effects of stress

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1173-1179

  Stotz Potter, Elizabeth H ^a   Willis, Lynn R ^a   DiMicco, Joseph A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blood pressure; dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus; GABA; heart rate; muscimol; paraventricular nucleus; rats; stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 0029985310     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-03-01173.1996     Document Type: Article

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