Hierarchical recruitment of the sympathetic and parasympathetic limbs of the baroreflex in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 579, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 473-486

  Simms, Annabel E ^a   Paton, Julian F R ^a   Pickering, Anthony E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART PERFUSION; HEART RATE; KIDNEY NERVE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; VAGUS NERVE; VASOMOTOR REFLEX; ADRENAL NERVE; INFERIOR CARDIAC NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PERFUSION PRESSURE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BRADYCARDIA; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33847667838     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.124396     Document Type: Article

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