Parasympathetic stimulation elicits cerebral vasodilatation in rat

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-157

  Talman, William T ^a   Corr, Julie ^a   Nitschke Dragon, Deidre ^a   Wang, DeQiang ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Nitric oxide; Parasympathetic; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; NITRERGIC NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; PARASYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASODILATION; ZYGOMA;

EID: 34247235602     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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