Spatial organization of neurons in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus synapsing with intragastric cholinergic and nitric oxide/VIP neurons in the rat

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Zhou, Shi Yi ^a   Lu, Yuan Xu ^a   Yao, HongRen ^a   Owyang, Chung ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Brain stem; Dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus; Gastric motility; Parasympathetic motor neurons; Vagal control

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; HEXAMETHONIUM; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; PROTEIN C FOS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE ANTAGONIST; ATROPINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STOMACH; STOMACH MOTILITY; SYNAPSE; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INNERVATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VAGOTOMY;

ANIMALS; ATROPINE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEXAMETHONIUM; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOMACH; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 45849092901     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00309.2006     Document Type: Article

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