Mechanism of the reflex inhibition of heart rate elicited by acupuncture-like stimulation in anesthetized rats

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 143, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 12-19

  Uchida, Sae ^a   Kagitani, Fusako ^a   Hotta, Harumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; GABAA receptors; Group IV muscle afferents; Heart rate; Supraspinal reflex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE; NALOXONE; PENTOBARBITAL;

ABDOMEN; ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN STEM; CISTERNA MAGNA; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NEEDLE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX; SKIN; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THORAX; TIBIAL NERVE; VAGOTOMY;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; BRADYCARDIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HEART RATE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX; SKIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIBIAL NERVE; VAGOTOMY;

EID: 56249114099     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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