Release of serotonin in the locus coeruleus of normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR)

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 359, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 460-465

  Kaehler, Stefan T ^a   Singewald, Nicolas ^a,b   Philippu, Athineos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Locus coeruleus; Noise; Noradrenaline; Push pull superfusion; Serotonin release; Sodium nitroprusside; Spontaneously hypertensive rats; Tail pinch

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSOR RESPONSE; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERTENSION; LOCUS CERULEUS; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEROTONIN METABOLISM; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; HYPERTENSION; LOCUS COERULEUS; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROPRUSSIDE; NOISE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SEROTONIN; SYMPATHOMIMETICS;

EID: 0033041462     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005376     Document Type: Article

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