Differential control of sympathetic drive to the rat tail artery and kidney by medullary premotor cell groups

Brain Research

Volumn 834, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 196-199

  Rathner, Joseph A ^a   McAllen, Robin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body temperature regulation; Raphe; Renal nerve; RVLM; RVMM; Skin blood flow

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY NERVE; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TAIL ARTERY; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELLS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TAIL;

EID: 0033542771     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01568-1     Document Type: Article

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