Role of brainstem GABAergic signaling in central cannabinoid receptor evoked sympathoexcitation and pressor responses in conscious rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1414, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-9

  Ibrahim, Badr Mostafa ^a   Abdel Rahman, Abdel A ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Brainstem; Cannabinoid; CB 1R; GABA AR; Muscimol

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR AGONIST; MUSCIMOL; NORADRENALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WIN 55 212 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN STEM; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHOEXCITATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BENZOXAZINES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEART RATE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MORPHOLINES; MUSCIMOL; NAPHTHALENES; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PIPERIDINES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; WAKEFULNESS;

RATTUS;

EID: 80052937941     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.07.046     Document Type: Article

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