Defining ventral medullary respiratory compartments with a glutamate receptor agonist in the rat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 548, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 859-874

  Monnier, A ^a   Alheid, G F ^a   McCrimmon, D R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; URETHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; HISTOLOGY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRADYPNEA; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RHYTHM; ROSTRAL VENTROLATERAL MEDULLA; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STEREOTYPY; VENTRAL RESPIRATORY GROUP;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOMOCYSTEINE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTIONS; PHRENIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 0038613025     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.038141     Document Type: Review

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