Sustained attenuation of the cerebrovascular response to a 10 min whisker stimulation following neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibition

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-166

  Bonvento, Gilles ^a   Cholet, Nathalie ^a   Seylaz, Jacques ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

7 Nitroindazole; Cerebral blood flow; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Trigeminal pathway

Indexed keywords

7 NITROINDAZOLE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT SURVEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INDAZOLES; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0034214151     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(00)00109-7     Document Type: Article

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