Enhanced serotonin-mediated responses in the nucleus tractus solitarius of spontaneously hypertensive rats

Brain Research

Volumn 863, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-8

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

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Baroreceptor reflex; Brain stem; Hypertension; Sarpogrelate

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; SARPOGRELATE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; MALE; PRESSORECEPTORS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SUCCINATES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034724799     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02063-1     Document Type: Article

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