Immunoreactivity for neuronal NOS and fluorescent indication of NO formation in the NTS of juvenile rats submitted to chronic intermittent hypoxia

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 55-62

  Pajolla, Gisela P ^a   Accorsi Mendonça, Daniela ^a   Lunardi, Claure N ^a   Bendhack, Lusiane M ^a   Machado, Benedito H ^a   Llewellyn Smith, Ida J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic intermittent hypoxia; Hypertension; Nitric oxide; nNOS; NTS

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; HEART RATE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUORESCEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART RATE; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 67349150405     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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