Systemic hypoxia facilitates somato-cardiac sympathetic A- and C-reflexes in anesthetized rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 175-178

  Li, Wei Min ^a   Sato, Akio ^a   Suzuki, Atsuko ^a   Trzebski, Andrzej ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anesthetized rats; Carotid chemoreceptor reflex; Inferior cardiac nerve; Somato cardiac sympathetic reflexes; Systemic hypoxia; Tibial nerve

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAROTID BODY; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART NERVE; HINDLIMB; HYPOXIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0030568993     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13024-X     Document Type: Article

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