Effects of lignocaine blockades and kainic acid lesions in the Bötzinger complex on spontaneous expiratory activity and cough reflex responses in the rabbit

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 332, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 175-179

  Mutolo, Donatella ^a   Bongianni, Fulvia ^a   Pantaleo, Tito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

B tzinger complex; Cough reflex; Expiratory activity; Expiratory neurons; Kainic acid; Lignocaine; Respiration; Ventral respiratory group

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; PENTOBARBITAL;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOTZINGER COMPLEX; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DRUG EFFECT; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RESPIRATORY NERVE CELL; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BRONCHI; COUGH; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; KAINIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RABBITS; REFLEX; RESPIRATORY CENTER; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0037044694     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00954-0     Document Type: Article

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