Altered expression of delayed excitation in medial NTS neurons of spontaneously hypertensive rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 205-209

  Sundaram, Kalyana ^a   Johnson, Stephen M ^a,b   Felder, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

electrophysiological properties; nucleus of the solitary tract; spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

ANIMALS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030894086     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00214-0     Document Type: Article

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