Effect of stimulation of nicotinic cholinergic receptors on cortical cerebral blood flow and changes in the effect during aging in anesthetized rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-206

  Uchida, Sae ^a   Kagitani, Fusako ^a   Nakayama, Hitomi ^a   Sato, Akio ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Cholinergic vasodilative fibers; Cortical cerebral blood flow; Nicotine; Nicotine receptor; Nucleus basalis of Meynert; Rat; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; HEXAMETHONIUM; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; VASODILATION;

EID: 0030955410     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00401-1     Document Type: Article

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