Central nucleus of amygdala projections to rostral ventrolateral medulla neurones activated by decreased blood pressure

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1921-1930

  Saha, Sikha ^a   Drinkhill, Mark J ^a   Moore, Jonathan P ^a   Batten, Trevor F C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anterograde tracing; c fos; Rat; Rostral ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMINE; CATECHOLAMINE; DEXTRAN; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMOTION; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN MAPPING; DENDRITES; DEXTRANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURONS; NITROPRUSSIDE; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 18844426552     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04023.x     Document Type: Article

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