Prelimbic but not infralimbic cortex is involved in the pressor response to chemoreflex activation in awake rats

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 518-527

  Granjeiro, Érica M ^a   Scopinho, América A ^a   Corrêa, Fernando M A ^a   Resstel, Leonardo B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM CYANIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESSOR RESPONSE; RAT; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

EID: 79954517641     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2011.057596     Document Type: Article

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