Brainstem circuits regulating gastric function

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2006, Pages 279-305

  Travagli, R Alberto ^a   Hermann, Gerlinda E ^a   Browning, Kirsteen N ^a   Rogers, Richard C ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus; Gastrointestinal reflexes; Nucleus tractus solitarius; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; CATECHOLAMINE; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEPTIN; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OPIATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; BRAIN STEM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STOMACH FUNCTION; STOMACH INNERVATION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; NERVE NET; STOMACH; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33646003262     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.68.040504.094635     Document Type: Review

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