Chronic activation of dorsal hindbrain corticosteroid receptors augments the arterial pressure response to acute stress

Hypertension

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-133

  Scheuer, Deborah A ^a,d   Bechtold, Andrea G ^b   Vernon, Kathy A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Brain; Glucocorticoids; Hypertension; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOSE; SILASTIC; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ACUTE STRESS; ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURA MATER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRESS; TIME;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CORTICOSTERONE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847630384     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000250088.15021.c2     Document Type: Article

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