NO differentially regulates neurotransmission to premotor cardiac vagal neurons in the nucleus ambiguus

Hypertension

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1137-1142

  Kamendi, Harriet ^a   Dergacheva, Olga ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Huang, Zheng Gui ^a   Bouairi, Evguenia ^a   Gorini, Christopher ^a   Mendelowitz, David ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguus; Brain stem; Cardiac; Nitric oxide; Parasympathetic; Vagal

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ARGININE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGUS NERVE NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; AUTONOMIC FIBERS, PREGANGLIONIC; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; HEART; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROPRUSSIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33751104737     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000246493.00385.94     Document Type: Article

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