Pontomedullary transection attenuates central respiratory modulation of sympathetic discharge, heart rate and the baroreceptor reflex in the in situ rat preparation

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 803-816

  Baekey, David M ^a,b,c   Dick, Thomas E ^a   Paton, Julian F R ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; HEART RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PONS; PONS ANGLE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 46149114645     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2007.041400     Document Type: Article

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