Development of autonomic dysreflexia after spinal cord injury is associated with a lack of serotonergic axons in the intermediolateral cell column

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1805-1818

  Cormier, Christen M ^a   Mukhida, Karim ^a   Walker, Greg ^a   Marsh, Daniel R ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

episodic hypertension; pressor response; serotonin; serotonin (5 HT) receptors; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; AXONS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDOPHENOL; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; KETANSERIN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR AGONISTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 77958199191     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1441     Document Type: Article

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