Mapping of carotid baroreceptor subtype projections to the nucleus tractus solitarius using c-fos immunohistochemistry

Brain Research

Volumn 758, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 201-208

  Dean, Caron ^a   Seagard, Jeanne L ^a  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreceptor afferent; Baroreceptor reflex; c fos immunohistochemistry; Cardiovascular; Nucleus tractus solitarius

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAROTID SINUS NERVE; CAROTID SINUS PRESSORECEPTOR; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAROTID SINUS; DOGS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRESSORECEPTORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030809525     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00245-X     Document Type: Article

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