Expression of c-Fos-like immunoreactivity in the feline brainstem in response to isometric muscle contraction and baroreceptor reflex changes in arterial pressure

Brain Research

Volumn 852, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 424-435

  Williams, Carole A ^a   Loyd, Stephen D ^a   Hampton, Toby A ^a   Hoover, Donald B ^a  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreceptors; c Fos immunoreactivity; Muscle afferent ergoreceptors; Muscle pressor response; Phenylephrine

Indexed keywords

PHENYLEPHRINE; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MUSCLE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; CAROTID ARTERIES; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; PHENYLEPHRINE; PRESSORECEPTORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; REFLEX; SYMPATHOMIMETICS; TIBIAL NERVE; TUBOCURARINE;

EID: 0033986341     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02217-9     Document Type: Article

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