Blockade of glutamate receptors in CVLM and NTS attenuates airway dilation evoked from parabrachial region

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 400-407

  Motekaitis, Ann M ^a,b   Solomon, Irene C ^a   Kaufman, Marc P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brain stem; cats; caudal ventrolateral medulla; cobalt chloride; kynurenic acid; nucleus tractus solitarii; parabrachial nuclei; pons

Indexed keywords

COBALT CHLORIDE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; KYNURENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BRONCHODILATATION; CAT; DENDRITE; HERING BREUER REFLEX; LUNG RESISTANCE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PONS; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030056136     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1996.81.1.400     Document Type: Article

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