Altered c-fos in rostral medulla and spinal cord of spontaneously hypertensive rats

Hypertension

Volumn 27, Issue 3 I, 1996, Pages 433-441

  Minson, Jane ^a,b   Arnolda, Leonard ^a   Llewellyn Smith, Ida ^a   Pilowsky, Paul ^a   Chalmers, John ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

blood pressure; genes; immunohistochemistry; rats, inbred SHR; retrograde tracing; rostral ventral medulla

Indexed keywords

NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 0030007395     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.27.3.433     Document Type: Article

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