Role of catecholamines in the frontal cortex in the modulation of basal and stress-induced autonomic output in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 741, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 220-229

  Funk, Douglas ^a   Stewart, Jane ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

adrenoceptor; agranular insular cortex; autonomic nervous system; dopamine; heart rate; medical frontal cortex; noradrenaline; stress

Indexed keywords

3 ALLYL 6 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; 8 BROMO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ISOPRENALINE; PHENTOLAMINE; PROPRANOLOL; QUINPIROLE; RACLOPRIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEART RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATECHOLAMINES; DOPAMINE; HEART RATE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URETHANE;

EID: 0030602046     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)00931-6     Document Type: Article

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