Ultrastructural circuitry of cardiorespiratory reflexes: There is a monosynaptic path between the nucleus of the solitary tract and vagal preganglionic motoneurons controlling atrioventricular conduction in the cat

Brain Research

Volumn 785, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 143-157

  Blinder, Karen J ^a   Gatti, Philip J ^a   Johnson, Tannis A ^a   Lauenstein, Jean Marie ^a   Coleman, William P ^a   Gray, Alrich L ^a   Massari, V John ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreceptor; Chemoreceptor; Heart; Intracardiac ganglia; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BREATHING REFLEX; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CAT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CATS; CHOLERA TOXIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SINOATRIAL NODE; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPSES; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0032559571     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01258-4     Document Type: Article

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