Airpuff startle stress elicited Fos expression in brain cardiovascular areas of young SHR and WKY rats

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1061-1081

  Palmer, Abraham A ^a   Printz, Morton P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airpuff Startle; Autonomic Pathways; Immunoreactive Fos; Locus coeruleus; Nucleus of the solitary tract; SHR; WKY

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERTENSION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0032874906     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641969909052189     Document Type: Article

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