Blocking systemic nitric oxide production alters neuronal activation in brain structures involved in cardiovascular regulation during polymicrobial sepsis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 453, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 141-146

  Bruhn, Fernando Henrique Pascoti ^a   Corrêa, Pollyanna Barbosa Farias ^a   Oliveira Pelegrin, Gabriela Ravanelli ^a   Rocha, Maria José Alves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Faculdade de Odontologia de Ribeirao Preto   (Brazil)

Author keywords

c fos; Hypotension; Immunocytochemistry; Nitric oxide synthase; Septic shock

Indexed keywords

AMINOGUANIDINE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEPSIS; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AREA POSTREMA; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; GUANIDINES; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEPSIS; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 61849100979     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.02.030     Document Type: Article

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