Sarin produces delayed cardiac and central autonomic changes

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 110-115

  Morris, Mariana ^a   Key, Mary P ^a   Farah, Vera ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Blood pressure; Brainstem; Cardiovascular; Catecholamines; Chemical defense; Spectral analysis; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTOXIN; SARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BRAIN STEM; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LD 50; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECTROSCOPY; TELEMETRY; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RNA, MESSENGER; SARIN; TELEMETRY; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 33751538014     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.07.027     Document Type: Article

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