Metabotropic glutamate receptors depress vagal and aortic baroreceptor signal transmission in the NTS

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1998, Pages

  Liu, Zhi ^a   Chen, Chao Yin ^a   Bonham, Ann C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoreceptors; Frequency; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750706265     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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