Enhanced response from the caudal pressor area in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1227, Issue , 2008, Pages 89-95

  Yajima, Yoshiharu ^a   Ito, Satoru ^a   Komatsu, Kazutoshi ^a   Tsukamoto, Kazuyoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Kouichi ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Brain stem; Caudal pressor area; Hypertension; Rostral ventrolateral medulla; Spontaneously hypertensive rats

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CAUDAL PRESSOR AREA; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; GLYCINE AGENTS; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 48949101492     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.06.047     Document Type: Article

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