Brainstem norepinephrine neurons mediate ethanol-evoked pressor response but not baroreflex dysfunction

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 639-647

  Li, Guichu ^a   Wang, Xu ^a   Abdel Rahman, Abdel A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Electrochemistry; Nucleus Tractus Solitarius; Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats; Wistar Kyoto Rats

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; NORADRENALIN; PROTEIN C JUN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REFLEX DISORDER; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TACHYCARDIA; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETHANOL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 17444408107     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000160083.72579.EC     Document Type: Article

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