Scopolamine-sensitive and resistant components of increase in cerebral cortical blood flow elicited by periaqueductal gray matter of rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 173-176

  Nakai, Masatsugu ^a   Maeda, Masanobu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Cortical superfusion; Cranial window; Muscarinic receptors; Periaqueductal gray matter; Scopolamine

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDOTOMY; DEVICE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DRUG RESISTANCE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCOPOLAMINE; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0033529871     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00491-7     Document Type: Article

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