Effects of thermal stimulation, applied to the hindpaw via a hot water bath, upon ovarian blood flow in anesthetized nonpregnant rats

Journal of Physiological Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 227-233

  Uchida, Sae ^a   Hotta, Harumi ^a   Hanada, Tomoko ^b   Okuno, Yuka ^b   Aikawa, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Ovarian blood flow; Ovarian sympathetic nerve; Rat; Thermal stimulation

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER;

ANESTHESIA; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BATH; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OVARY BLOOD FLOW; RAT; REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD PRESSURE; DENERVATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HINDLIMB; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVARY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL NERVES; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 36248959773     PISSN: 18806546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/physiolsci.RP003507     Document Type: Article

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