Cranial visceral afferent pathways through the nucleus of the solitary tract to caudal ventrolateral medulla or paraventricular hypothalamus: Target-specific synaptic reliability and convergence patterns

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 46, 2006, Pages 11893-11902

  Bailey, Timothy W ^a   Hermes, Sam M ^a   Andresen, Michael C ^a   Aicher, Sue A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Baroreceptor; Brainstem; Hypothalamus; Paraventricular; Sensory

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; CRANIAL NERVES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETICULAR FORMATION; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 33751119899     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2044-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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