Suppression of the cough reflex by inhibition of ERK1/2 activation in the caudal nucleus tractus solitarii of the rabbit

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Mutolo, Donatella ^a   Bongianni, Fulvia ^a   Cinelli, Elenia ^a   Giovannini, Maria Grazia ^a   Pantaleo, Tito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airway defensive reflexes; MAP kinase

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAMINO 1,4 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYLTHIO) 2,3 DICYANOBUTADIENE; CITRIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PENTOBARBITAL; U 0124; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HERING BREUER REFLEX; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RABBIT; SNEEZING; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

ANIMALS; BUTADIENES; COUGH; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICROINJECTIONS; NITRILES; RABBITS; REFLEX; RESPIRATORY CENTER; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 84859772508     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00629.2011     Document Type: Article

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