Median preoptic nucleus and subfornical organ drive renal sympathetic nerve activity via a glutamatergic mechanism within the paraventricular nucleus

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Llewellyn, Tamra ^a   Zheng, Hong ^a   Liu, Xuefei ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Patel, Kaushik P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II; Cardiovascular; Glutamate; Sympathetic drive

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; LOSARTAN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; TRACER;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FOREBRAIN; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROINJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBFORNICAL ORGAN; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEART RATE; KIDNEY; LOSARTAN; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBFORNICAL ORGAN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84863234542     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00403.2011     Document Type: Article

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