Effects of kainic acid administered to the caudal ventrolateral medulla on arterial blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 145-148

  Yang, Z ^a   Chan, Y S ^a   Wong, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arterial blood pressure; Caudal ventrolateral medulla; Kainic acid; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Wistar Kyoto rat

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

EID: 0030068351     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12226-5     Document Type: Article

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