Nervous control of blood flow microkinetics in the infrared organs of pit vipers

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 98-106

  Goris, R ^a   Nakano, M ^a   Atobe, Y ^a   Kadota, T ^a   Funakoshi, K ^a   Hisajima, T ^a   Kishida, R ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Doppler recording; Heat exchange; Infrared reception; Pit organs; Pit vipers; Trigeminal control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SNAKE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPSAICIN; FEMALE; HEAT; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0034735733     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(00)00195-8     Document Type: Article

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