Autonomic response and Fos expression in the NTS following intermittent vagal stimulation: Importance of pulse frequency

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 126-127, Issue , 2006, Pages 72-80

  Osharina, Viktoria ^a   Bagaev, Vitaly ^a   Wallois, Fabrice ^a   Larnicol, Nicole ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Breathing frequency; Cardiac frequency; Epilepsy; Fos expression; Intermittent stimulation; Intragastric pressure; Nitric oxide; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Rat; Therapy; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN FOS; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BREATHING; BREATHING RATE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HEART RATE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULSE RATE; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STOMACH PRESSURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33744522662     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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