Phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase gene expression in the heart and blood pressure response to oxytocin treatment in rats exposed to voluntary wheel running

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 302-307

  Bakos, Jan ^a   Bobryshev, Peter ^b   Tillinger, Andrej ^a   Kvetňanský, Richard ^a   Jezova, Daniela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Addictive behavior; Cardiac PNMT; Cardiovascular system; Oxytocin, exercise

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 57649158635     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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