Dorsal raphe nucleus serotonergic neurons innervate the rostral ventrolateral medulla in rat

Brain Research

Volumn 824, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-55

  Underwood, Mark D ^a   Arango, Victoria ^a   Bakalian, Mihran J ^a   Ruggiero, David A ^a   Mann, J John ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cardiovascular response; Cortical blood flow; Descending 5 HT projection; Receptor autoradiography; Retrograde axonal labeling

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; CARRIER PROTEINS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0033119207     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01181-6     Document Type: Article

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