Chronic intermittent hypoxia impairs heart rate responses to AMPA and NMDA and induces loss of glutamate receptor neurons in nucleus ambiguus of F344 rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Yan, Binbin ^a,b   Li, Hua ^a   Harden, Scott W ^a   Gozal, David ^c   Lin, Ying ^c   Wead, William B ^c   Wurster, Robert D ^d   Cheng, Zixi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Brain stem; Heart; Parasympathetic efferent; Sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 3; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 2; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 3; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID; NMDA RECEPTOR A1;

AMBIENT AIR; AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FISCHER 344 RAT; HEART RATE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODEL; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; HEART; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; HEART; HEART RATE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR NEURONS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NERVE DEGENERATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 60649120054     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90412.2008     Document Type: Article

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