Cerebral blood flow increases evoked by electrical stimulation of rat cerebellar cortex: Relation to excitatory synaptic activity and nitric oxide synthesis

Brain Research

Volumn 710, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 204-214

  Akgören, Nuran ^a   Dalgaard, Peter ^a   Lauritzen, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Glutamate; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Metabolic regulation; Nitric oxide; Parallel fiber; Synaptic activity

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PICROTOXIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGIONAL PERFUSION;

EID: 0343113384     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01354-7     Document Type: Article

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