Activity patterns of cardiac vagal motoneurons in rat nucleus ambiguus

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 283, Issue 6 52-6, 2002, Pages

  Rentero, N ^a,b   Cividjian, A ^b   Trevaks, D ^a   Pequignot, J M ^b   Quintin, L ^b   McAllen, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Heart rate; Parasympathetic; Phrenic; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA NERVE FIBER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; HEART NERVE; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0036889223     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00271.2002     Document Type: Article

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