Heartbeat Control in Leeches. I. Constriction Pattern and Neural Modulation of Blood Pressure in Intact Animals

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 382-396

  Wenning, Angela ^a   Cymbalyuk, Gennady S ^a   Calabrese, Ronald L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CIRCULATION; DIASTOLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART BEAT; HEART CONTRACTION; LEECH; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HEART; HEART RATE; LEECHES; MOTOR NEURONS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PERIODICITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0346562867     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00526.2003     Document Type: Article

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