Enhanced neuronal excitability in adult rat brainstem causes widespread repetitive brainstem depolarizations with cardiovascular consequences

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1535-1545

  Richter, Frank ^a   Bauer, Reinhard ^a   Ebersberger, Andrea ^a   Lehmenkühler, Alfred ^b   Schaible, Hans Georg ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b Pain Institute and Center for Medical Education   (Germany)

Author keywords

brain stem; migraine; neuronal glial interaction; spreading depression

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; GLUTAMATERGIC NEUROTRANSMISSION; MALE; MIGRAINE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPETITIVE DEPOLARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN STEM; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORTICAL SPREADING DEPRESSION; HEART RATE; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84864532007     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.40     Document Type: Article

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