Medullary Neurons by Angiotensin II in the Conscious Rabbit

Hypertension

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 287-296

  Hirooka, Yoshitaka ^a   Head, Geoffrey A ^b   Potts, Patrick D ^a   Godwin, Shirley J ^b   Bendle, Robert D ^b   Dampney, Roger A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II; Blood pressure; Brain; Immunohistochemistry; Pressoreceptors; Rabbits

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; RINGER SOLUTION; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART RATE; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENES, FOS; HEART RATE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; KINETICS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0030041576     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.27.2.287     Document Type: Article

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