Hypocretin-1 (orexin-A) facilitates inhibitory and diminishes excitatory synaptic pathways to cardiac vagal neurons in the nucleus ambiguus

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 314, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1322-1327

  Dergacheva, Olga ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Huang, Zheng Gui ^a   Bouairi, Evguenia ^a   Stephens, Hristopher ^a   Gorini, Chistopher ^a   Mendelowitz, David ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; OREXIN A; TETRODOTOXIN;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART RATE; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEART; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 23944479532     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.105.086421     Document Type: Article

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