Enhanced neurally evoked responses and inhibition of norepinephrine reuptake in rat mesenteric arteries after spinal transection

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Brock, James A ^a,b   Yeoh, Melanie ^a   McLachlan, Elspeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomic dysreflexia; Neurovascular transmission; Spinal cord injury; Sympathetic nerve; Vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; POTASSIUM; PRAZOSIN; PURINE P2 RECEPTOR; PURINERGIC RECEPTOR AGONIST ALPHA; PURINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SURAMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALPHA,BETA METHYLENEADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALPHA,BETA-METHYLENEADENOSINE 5'-TRIPHOSPHATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; METHOXAMINE; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TAIL ARTERY; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASOCONSTRICTION; WISTAR RAT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; METHOXAMINE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; POTASSIUM; PRAZOSIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SURAMIN; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 33644797121     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00712.2005     Document Type: Article

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