Excitatory amino acids in the rostral ventrolateral medulla support blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Hypertension

Volumn 35, Issue 1 II, 2000, Pages 413-417

  Ito, Satoru ^a   Komatsu, Kazutoshi ^a   Tsukamoto, Kazuyoshi ^a   Sved, Alan F ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Brain; Glutamate; Hypertension, experimental; Neurotransmitter; Rats, inbred SHR

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; KYNURENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0033954453     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.35.1.413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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