Characteristics of autonomic nervous function in Zucker-fatty rats: Investigation by power spectral analysis of heart rate variability

Experimental Animals

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-144

  Towa, Shuichi ^a,b   Kuwahara, Masayoshi ^a   Tsubone, Hirokazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous function; Circadian rhythm; Heart rate variability; Radiotelemetry; Zucker fatty rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TELEMETRY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HEART RATE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; ZUCKER RAT;

ATROPINE; PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMALS; ATROPINE; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTOPERIOD; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3142511148     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: 13411357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.53.137     Document Type: Article

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