The release of inhibitory amino acids in the hypothalamus is tonically modified by impulses from aortic baroreceptors as a consequenee of blood pressure fluctuations

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 356, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 348-355

  Singewald, Nicolas ^a   Kouvelas, Dimitrios ^a,b   Chen, Feng ^a,c   Philippu, Athineos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aortic denervation; Arginine; Arterial pressure lability; Blood pressure; Blood volume; GABA; Phenylephrine; Push pull superfusion; Taurine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA PRESSORECEPTOR; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; PRESSOR RESPONSE; RAT; SENSORY NERVE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; AORTA; ARGININE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; DENERVATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NITROPRUSSIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PRESSORECEPTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TAURINE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0030959740     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005061     Document Type: Article

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