Acute cerebral focal ischaemia alters the adrenergic and nanc responses in the biseeted rat vas deferens

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1723-1732

  Boselli, C ^a   Cozzi, A ^b   Rozza, A ^a   Favalli, L ^a   Govoni, F ^a   Govoni, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Noradrenergic transmission; Purinergic transmission; Rat; Stroke; Vas deferens

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALPHA,BETA METHYLENEADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NORADRENALIN; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL FOCAL ISCHEMIA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONADRENERGIC NONCHOLINERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROKE; VAS DEFERENS; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADRENERGIC AGONISTS; ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0036548864     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0704628     Document Type: Article

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