Recruitment of cardiac parasympathetic activity: Effects of clonidine on cardiac vagal motoneurones, pressure lability, and cardiac baroreflex slope in rats

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 322-330

  Toader, E ^a   Cividjian, A ^a   Quintin, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Atenolol; Baroreflex; Blood pressure variability; Cardiac vagal motoneurons; Clonidine; Single unit activity; Sinus arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; CLONIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC BAROREFLEX; HEART CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 60249098616     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aen390     Document Type: Article

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