Roles of nitric oxide as a vasodilator in neurovascular coupling of mouse somatosensory cortex

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 160-171

  Kitaura, Hiroki ^a   Uozumi, Naonori ^b   Tohmi, Manavu ^a   Yamazaki, Maya ^a   Sakimura, Kenji ^a   Kudoh, Masaharu ^a   Shimizu, Takao ^b   Shibuki, Katsuei ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flavoprotein fluorescence; Mouse; Neurovascular coupling; Nitric oxide; Prostanoids; Somatosensory cortex; Transcranial imaging

Indexed keywords

FLAVOPROTEIN; INDOMETACIN; N(G) NITROARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITORS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FLAVOPROTEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GROUP IV PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITROARGININE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VASODILATION;

EID: 34548793511     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2007.06.1469     Document Type: Article

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