Prenatal nicotine exposure alters the types of nicotinic receptors that facilitate excitatory inputs to cardiac vagal neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2548-2554

  Huang, Zheng Gui ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Evans, Cory ^a   Gold, Allison ^a   Bouairi, Evguenia ^a   Mendelowitz, David ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; NEOSTIGMINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APNEA; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; GLUTAMATERGIC NEUROTRANSMISSION; HEART NERVE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; BUNGAROTOXINS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEART; NEOSTIGMINE; NEURONS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 4644220971     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00500.2004     Document Type: Article

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