Microinjection of urocortin into the rat nucleus tractus solitarii decreases arterial blood pressure

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 51-54

  Yamazaki, Toshiya ^a,b   Waki, Hidefumi ^a   Kohsaka, Akira ^a   Nakamura, Takeshi ^a   Cui, He ^a   Yukawa, Kazunori ^a   Maeda, Masanobu ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF); Heart rate; Nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS); Type 1 CRF receptor; Type 2 CRF receptor; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; UROCORTIN I;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTOR BINDING; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HEART RATE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PRESSORECEPTORS; RATS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; UROCORTINS; VASODILATION; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 53049086505     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2008.07.013     Document Type: Article

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