Estrogen-dependent enhancement of NO production in the nucleus tractus solitarius contributes to ethanol-induced hypotension in conscious female rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 366-374

  Li, Guichu ^a   Abdel Rahman, Abdel A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscious rat; Electrochemistry; Ethanol; LPS; Nitric oxide; Nucleus tractus dolitarius

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ESTROGEN; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPOTENSION; NERVE CELL; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALIBRATION; CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HYPOTENSION; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; NITRIC OXIDE; OVARIECTOMY; PROESTRUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 58849143520     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00845.x     Document Type: Article

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