Glutamate injection into the cuneiform nucleus in rat, produces correlated single unit activities in the kolliker-fuse nucleus and cardiovascular responses

Neuroscience

Volumn 223, Issue , 2012, Pages 439-446

  Nasimi, A ^a   Shafei, M N ^b   Alaei, H ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cuneiform nucleus; Glutamate; Kolliker Fuse nucleus; Single unit recording

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CENTRAL INTERMEDIATE SUBSTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEIFORM NUCLEUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROSTRAL VENTROLATERAL MEDULLA; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; GLUTAMIC ACID; HEART RATE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RETICULAR FORMATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84866495837     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.07.041     Document Type: Article

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