Altered balance of γ-aminobutyric acidergic and glutamatergic afferent inputs in rostral ventrolateral medulla-projecting neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus of renovascular hypertensive rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 518, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 567-585

  Biancardi, Vinicia Campana ^a   Campos, Ruy Ribeiro ^b   Stern, Javier Eduardo ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Hypertension; Immunohistochemistry; Plasticity; Sympathetic; Synaptic

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1; GLUTAMIC ACID; OXYTOCIN; SLC17A6 PROTEIN, RAT; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RENAL ARTERY; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; DISEASE MODEL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETICULAR FORMATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DENDRITES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPERTENSION, RENOVASCULAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; KIDNEY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETICULAR FORMATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 77649251242     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22256     Document Type: Article

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