Ventrolateral medullary control of cardiovascular activity during muscle contraction

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-86

  Ally, Ahmmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HT receptors; AMPA receptors; Arterial blood pressure; Cat; Caudal ventrolateral medulla; Central command; Excitatory amino acid receptors; Exercise pressor reflex; Glutamate; Heart rate; Muscarinic cholinergic receptors; Muscle afferents; Opioid receptors; Rat; Rostral ventrolateral medulla; Serotonin; Spinal cord; Sympathetic nerve activity; Adrenoceptors

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OPIATE RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CAT; ENZYME INHIBITION; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0344474509     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(97)00069-9     Document Type: Article

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