Enhanced neuronal nitric oxide synthase expression is central to cardiac vagal phenotype in exercise-trained mice

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 546, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 225-232

  Danson, E J F ^a   Paterson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINE DERIVATIVE; ARGININE; CARBACHOL; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLIC GMP; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ORNITHINE; QUINOXALINE DERIVATIVE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EXERCISE; FACILITATION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; IC 50; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RUNNING; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC VAGAL PHENOTYPE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GANGLION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYCLIC GMP; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HEART; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITROPRUSSIDE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; SOLUBILITY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0037233007     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.031781     Document Type: Review

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