Hypoxia activates nucleus tractus solitarii neurons projecting to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Luise King, T ^a   Heesch, Cheryl M ^a,b   Clark, Catharine G ^a   Kline, David D ^a,b   Hasser, Eileen M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Catecholaminergic neurons; Chemoreflex; Fos; GABAergic neurons; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CELL ACTIVATION; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 84861162348     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00028.2012     Document Type: Article

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