Nitric oxide synthase inhibition does not affect somatosensory evoked potentials in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-210

  Lindauer, Ute ^a   Megow, Dirk ^a   Schultze, Joerg ^a   Weber, Joerg R ^a   Dirnagl, Ulrich ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral circulation; Electrical forepaw stimulation; Laser Doppler; Neurovascular coupling; Regional cerebral blood flow; Whisker barrel cortex

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0030568987     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)13044-5     Document Type: Article

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