Nitric oxide in the ventrolateral medulla regulates sympathetic responses to systemic hypoxia in pigs

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 275, Issue 1 44-1, 1998, Pages

  Zanzinger, Johannes ^a   Czachurski, Jürgen ^a   Seller, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemoreceptors; Rostal ventrolateral medulla; Sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CAROTID SINUS; DEAFFERENTATION; HYPOXIA; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOXYGENATION; SWINE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0031816935     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.275.1.r33     Document Type: Article

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