Activity of neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract of rats: Effect of osmotic and mechanical stimuli

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-36

  Izawa, Shunji ^a   Inoue, Kiyoshi ^a   Adachi, Akira ^b   Funahashi, Makoto ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain slices; Mechanosensitivity; Nucleus tractus solitarius; Osmosensitivity; Rat; Whole cell current clamp

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; SODIUM; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL VOLUME; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALINITY; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DIURETICS, OSMOTIC; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; HYPOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MALE; MANNITOL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SUCROSE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0034617349     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01193-9     Document Type: Article

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