Activation of NADPH-diaphorase-positive projections to the rostral ventrolateral medulla following cardiac mechanoreceptor stimulation in the conscious rat

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Kantzides, A ^a   Badoer, E ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac mechanoreceptors; Fos; Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus; Nitric oxide synthase; Nucleus tractus solitarius

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART STIMULATION; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTION; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NITRERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CONSCIOUSNESS; HEART; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRERGIC NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 33744825977     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00532.2005     Document Type: Article

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