Habituation of airpuff-elicited cardiovascular responses in the spontaneously hypertensive rat

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 919-925

  Taylor, Bradley K ^a,b   Printz, Morton P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense reflex; Habituation; Orienting reflex; Somatosympathetic response; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Startle reaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0030249648     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00154-0     Document Type: Article

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