Strong galvanic vestibular stimulation obscures arterial pressure response to gravitational change in conscious rats

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-40

  Abe, Chikara ^a   Tanaka, Kunihiko ^a   Awazu, Chihiro ^a   Morita, Hironobu ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Free drop; Hypergravity; Microgravity; Vestibular lesion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR TEST; GRAVITY; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ARSANILIC ACID; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 38349075220     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00454.2007     Document Type: Article

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