Investigating feedforward neural regulation of circulation from analysis of spontaneous arterial pressure and heart rate fluctuations in conscious rats

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Legramante, Jacopo M ^a,b,c   Sacco, Sergio ^a,c   Raimondi, Gianfranco ^d   Di Lecce, Vito N ^b   Pallante, Marco ^a   Di Nardo, Paolo ^a   Galante, Alberto ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c S Raffaele Hospital   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Baroreceptors; Feedforward mechanisms; Negative feedback mechanisms; Nervous system autonomic; Nervous system sympathetic

Indexed keywords

PRAZOSIN; PROPRANOLOL;

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PHENYLEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; SYMPATHOLYTICS; TELEMETRY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 58149483364     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00358.2008     Document Type: Article

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