Commissural NTS lesions enhance the pressor response to central cholinergic and adrenergic activation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 521, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-36

  Vieira, Alexandre A ^a   De Luca, Laurival A ^a   Colombari, Eduardo ^a   Colombari, Debora S A ^a   Menani, José V ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Commissural NTS; Hypertension; Sympathetic; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; NORADRENALIN; POTASSIUM CYANIDE; VASOPRESSIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CANNULA; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROLYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; CARBACHOL; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; ELECTROLYSIS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 84862593857     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.05.053     Document Type: Article

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