Low-intensity treadmill exercise-related changes in the rat stellate ganglion neurons

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1334-1342

  de Oliveira Cavalcanti, Renato Albuquerque ^a   da Pureza, Demilto Yamaguchi ^a   de Melo, Mariana Pereira ^a   de Souza, Romeu Rodrigues ^b   Bergamaschi, Cássia T ^c   do Amaral, Sandra Lia ^d   Tang, Helen ^e   Lüesch, Andrzej ^e   Ribeiro, Antonio Augusto Coppi Maciel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO JUDAS TADEU UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^e ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extrinsic cardiac innervation; Physical exercise; Rats; Stellate ganglion; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HEART RATE; HYPERTROPHY; LOADING TEST; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STELLATE GANGLION; STEREOLOGY; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WISTAR RAT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELL COUNT; HEART RATE; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; NEURONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STELLATE GANGLION;

EID: 65549150442     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21961     Document Type: Article

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