Exposure to a hot environment can activate rostral ventrolateral medulla-projecting neurones in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in conscious rats

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-74

  Cham, Joo Lee ^a   Badoer, Emilio ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEAT; HEATING; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NITRERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; RAT; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 37349131607     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2007.039560     Document Type: Article

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