Area postrema lesion attenuates the long-term hypotensive effects of losartan in salt-replete rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 2 43-2, 1998, Pages

  Collister, John P ^a   Osborn, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II; Chronic arterial pressure regulation; Circumventricular organ; Food restriction

Indexed keywords

LOSARTAN; ANGIOTENSIN II; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; RENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; HYPOTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM BALANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRINKING; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HEART RATE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PHYSIOLOGY; SODIUM INTAKE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRINKING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HEART RATE; LOSARTAN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RENIN; SODIUM, DIETARY; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0031990587     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.2.r357     Document Type: Article

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