Endothelin-1 facilitates synaptic transmission in the nucleus tractus solitarii in normotensive rats but not in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Hypertension Research - Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-48

  Hirooka, Yoshitaka ^a   Shihara, Miwako ^b   Eshima, Kenichi ^a   Hori, Nobuaki ^a   Takeshita, Akira ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b School of Dentistry ^*

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Brain; Endothelin; Glutamate; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HYPERTENSION; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032906480     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.22.43     Document Type: Article

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