Pressor and sympathetic responses to excitatory amino acids are not augmented in the ventrolateral medulla of Dahl salt-sensitive rats

Brain Research

Volumn 750, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 195-200

  Tsuchihashi, Takuya ^a   Kagiyama, Shuntaro ^a   Onaka, Uran ^a   Abe, Isao ^a   Fujishima, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

blood pressure; Dahl salt sensitive rat; excitatory amino acid; glutamate receptor; sympathetic nervous system; ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

1 AMINO 1,3 CYCLOPENTANEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HISTOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SPLANCHNIC NERVE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CYCLOLEUCINE; DIET, SODIUM-RESTRICTED; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEART RATE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTIONS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SODIUM, DIETARY; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0031049749     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01349-2     Document Type: Article

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