Cardiovascular actions of adrenocorticotropin microinjections into the nucleus tractus solitarius of the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 863-874

  Brown, S ^b   Chitravanshi, V C ^a   Sapru, H N ^a,b  

^a RWJ Barnabas Health   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

agouti related protein; bradycardia; depressor responses; greater splanchnic nerve activity; melanocortin receptor antagonists; vagotomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROELECTRODE; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DECEREBRATE STATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEART RATE; HORMONES; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; TIME FACTORS; VAGOTOMY;

EID: 33751246466     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.08.026     Document Type: Article

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