Altered sympathetic reflexes and vascular reactivity in rats after exposure to chronic intermittent hypoxia

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 589, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1463-1476

  Silva, Ana Q ^a,b   Schreihofer, Ann M ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APNEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; PHRENIC NERVE; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY DRIVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; TIME FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 79952581618     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.200691     Document Type: Article

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