Cardiorespiratory reflexes in a working heart-brainstem preparation of the house musk shrew, Suncus murinus

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 54-59

  Smith, Julia E ^a   Paton, Julian F R ^b   Andrews, Paul L R ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baroreceptor; Brainstem mediated reflexes; House musk shrew; Peripheral chemoreceptor; Suncus murinus

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; SODIUM CYANIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; BREATHING PATTERN; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; INSECTIVORE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; TISSUE PREPARATION; VAGUS TONE;

ANIMALS; ATROPINE; BAROREFLEX; BRAIN STEM; CHEMORECEPTORS; DEGLUTITION; DENERVATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PHRENIC NERVE; RESPIRATION; SHREWS; SODIUM CYANIDE;

EID: 0035919224     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(01)00251-X     Document Type: Article

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