Functional effects and characteristics of cecum-projecting neurons in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus of rats

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-8

  Cao, Xiaoqing ^a   Ball, Andrew J ^a   Partosoedarso, Elita R ^a   Burmeister, Melissa A ^a   Hornby, Pamela J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cecum; Efferent motor control; Hindbrain; Nitric oxide; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; TRACER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAROSTAT; CECUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOGRAM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CARBACHOL; CECUM; CELL COUNT; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOMACH; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33845675592     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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