Comparison of the somatosympathetic reflex in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 563-567

  Shcherbin, Yu I ^a   Tsyrlin, V A ^b  

^a N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b PAVLOV FIRST SAINT PETERSBURG STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

SHR rats; Somatosympathetic reflex; Stimulation of afferent fibers

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FORELIMB; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HYPERTENSION; MEDIAN NERVE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 4344618003     PISSN: 00970549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NEAB.0000028285.36999.68     Document Type: Article

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