Increased sympathetic outflow in juvenile rats submitted to chronic intermittent hypoxia correlates with enhanced expiratory activity

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3253-3265

  Zoccal, Daniel B ^a   Simms, Annabel E ^b   Bonagamba, Leni G H ^a   Braga, Valdir A ^a   Pickering, Anthony E ^b   Paton, Julian F R ^b   Machado, Benedito H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL NERVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CHRONIC INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATION CENTER; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS NERVE; ANIMAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXPIRATORY FLOW; HEART RATE; IN VIVO STUDY; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; NERVE; PATHOGENESIS; R WAVE; RESPIRATORY BURST; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXHALATION; HEART RATE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 47249118848     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.154187     Document Type: Article

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