Gastrodin improved baroreflex sensitivity and increased gamma-amino butyric acid content in brains without decreasing blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats

CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 873-875

  Liu, Wei ^a   Su, Bei Lin ^b   Wang, Zhong Shi ^a   Zhang, Xu ^a,c   Gao, Yun Sheng ^c   Song, Shu Wei ^b  

^a 88th Hospital of PLA   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TAISHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GASTRODIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; KETANSERIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMORAL VEIN; HEART RATE; LETTER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BENZYL ALCOHOLS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUCOSIDES; GLUTAMIC ACID; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR;

EID: 84866747969     PISSN: 17555930     EISSN: 17555949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-5949.2012.00381.x     Document Type: Letter

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