Nitrous oxide depresses somatocardiac sympathetic A- and C-reflexes in anesthetized rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-60

  Adachi, Takehiko ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshiya ^a   Kurata, Jiro ^a   Utsumi, Jun ^a   Shinomura, Tetsutaro ^a   Nakao, Shin Ichi ^a   Murakawa, Masahiro ^a   Shichino, Tsutomu ^a   Mori, Kenjiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute tolerance; Analgesia; Naloxone; Nitrous oxide; Rat; Somatosympathetic reflex

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART NERVE; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0030602842     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12843-3     Document Type: Article

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