The unsilent majority-TRPV1 drives "spontaneous" transmission of unmyelinated primary afferents within cardiorespiratory NTS

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 303, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Andresen, Michael C ^a   Hofmann, Mackenzie E ^a   Fawley, Jessica A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Brain stem; Solitary tract nucleus; Synaptic; Transmitter

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID; CAPSAICIN; CYTOKINE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIPID; NEUROPEPTIDE; PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

ACTION POTENTIAL; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; HOMEOSTASIS; INFLAMMATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER C; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GLUTAMATES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRPV CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 84871328039     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00398.2012     Document Type: Review

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