Opioid modulation of calcium current in cultured sensory neurons: μ- modulation of baroreceptor input

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 277, Issue 2 46-2, 1999, Pages

  Hamra, Mary ^a   McNeil, Robert S ^a   Runciman, Martin ^a   Kunze, Diana L ^b  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Calcium current; Electrophysiology; Nodose ganglia; Tyrosine D alanine glycine methylphenylalanine glycol enkephalin; opiate peptide

Indexed keywords

ENKEPHALIN; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NALOXONE; OMEGA CONOTOXIN; OPIATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NODOSE GANGLION; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032882136     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1999.277.2.h705     Document Type: Article

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