Angiotensin II-induced hypertension differentially affects estrogen and progestin receptors in central autonomic regulatory areas of female rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 393-406

  Milner, Teresa A ^a,b   Drake, Carrie T ^a   Lessard, Andree ^a   Waters, Elizabeth M ^b   Torres Reveron, Annelyn ^a   Graustein, Bradley ^a   Mitterling, Katherine ^a,b   Frys, Kelly ^a   Iadecola, Costantino ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreceptor; Chemoreceptor; Electron microscopy; Hypothalamus; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN II; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; DIESTRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CATECHOLAMINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 47349083001     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.04.021     Document Type: Article

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