Effect of neuronal NO synthase inhibition on the cerebral vasodilatory response to somatosensory stimulation

Brain Research

Volumn 708, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 197-200

  Cholet, Nathalie ^a   Bonvento, Gilles ^a   Seylaz, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

7 Nitroindazole; Autoradiography; Neuronal nitric oxide synthase; Somatosensory activation; Trigeminal pathway; 14C iodoantipyrine; Chloralose

Indexed keywords

7 NITROINDAZOLE; CHLORALOSE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0030022379     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01387-3     Document Type: Article

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