Interactions between sympathetic and vagal cardiac afferents in nucleus tractus solitarii

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 272, Issue 6 41-6, 1997, Pages

  Tjen A Looi, S ^a   Bonham, A ^a   Longhurst, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac sympathetic and vagal afferent stimulation; Cardiac sympathetic efferent recording; Cardiovascular pressor reflexes; Extracellular unit recording; Vagal inhibition

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0030878144     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.272.6.h2843     Document Type: Article

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