Bufokinin: Actions and distribution in the toad cardiovascular system

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 911-916

  Liu, Lu ^a   Shang, Fei ^a   Comis, Alfio ^b   Burcher, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Bufokinin; Cardiovascular; Immunohistochemistry; Tachykinin receptors; Tachykinins

Indexed keywords

BUFOKININ; NEUROPEPTIDE; SUBSTANCE P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPRESSOR RESPONSE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TOAD;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BUFO MARINUS; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033758357     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2000.03360.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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