Pressor response to microinjection of orexin/hypocretin into rostral ventrolateral medulla of awake rats

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 104, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 75-81

  Machado, Benedito H ^a   Bonagamba, Leni G H ^a   Dun, Siok L ^b   Kwok, Ernest H ^b   Dun, Nae J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypocretin; Orexin; Rostral ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; OREXIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HEART RATE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONSCIOUSNESS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEART RATE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PRESSORECEPTORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037086827     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(01)00351-2     Document Type: Article

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