The bradycardic and hypotensive responses to serotonin are reduced by activation of GABAA receptors in the nucleus tractus solitarius of awake rats

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1123-1131

  Callera, J C ^a   Colombari, E ^a,b   De Luca, L A ^a   Menani, J V ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Awake rats; Bezold Jarisch reflex; GABA receptors; Muscimol; Nucleus tractus solitarius; Parasympathetic component

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ATROPINE METHYL BROMIDE; BACLOFEN; MUSCIMOL; SEROTONIN; STAINLESS STEEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRADYCARDIA; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HEART RATE; HYPOTENSION; INJECTION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 23144443712     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2005000700016     Document Type: Article

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