Morphological and electrophysiological properties of neurones in the dorsal vagal complex of the rat activated by arterial baroreceptors

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 417, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 233-249

  Deuchars, Jim ^a   Li, Yu Wen ^b   Kasparov, Sergey ^c   Paton, Julian F R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aortic nerve; Baroreceptors; Carotid sinus nerve; Nucleus tractus solitarius

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA NERVE; ARTICLE; CAROTID SINUS; DENDRITE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BIOTIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; PRESSORECEPTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0034615161     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(20000207)417:2<233::AID-CNE8>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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