Sympathetic premotor neurones project to and are influenced by neurones in the contralateral rostral ventrolateral medulla of the rat in vivo

Brain Research

Volumn 1439, Issue , 2012, Pages 34-43

  McMullan, Simon ^a   Pilowsky, Paul M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Commissural; Contralateral; Network; RVLM; Sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

ARECAIDINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; MUSCIMOL; URETHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROSTRAL VENTROLATERAL MEDULLA; SPIKE; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; SYMPATHETIC PREMOTOR NEURON; VAGOTOMY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

RATTUS;

EID: 84856597641     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.12.058     Document Type: Article

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