The cardiovascular and endocrine responses to voluntary and forced diving in trained and untrained rats

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  McCulloch, Paul F ^a   DiNovo, Karyn M ^a   Connolly, Tiffanny M ^a  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiorespiratory control system; Habituation; Implanted biotelemetric transmitters; Swimming; Underwater maze

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DIVING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWIMMING; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CORTICOSTERONE; DIVING; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HEART RATE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SWIMMING; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 73549099747     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00592.2009     Document Type: Article

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