The Sharpey-Schafer Prize Lecture: Nucleus tractus solitarii: Integrating structures

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 815-833

  Paton, Julian F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SUBSTANCE P;

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CHEMORECEPTOR; HEART; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; REFLEX; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SWALLOWING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

EID: 0032853811     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0958067099019120     Document Type: Article

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