Exercise training lowers the enhanced tonically active glutamatergic input to the rostral ventrolateral medulla in hypertensive rats

CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 244-251

  Zha, Yan Ping ^a,b   Wang, Yang Kai ^a   Deng, Yu ^a,c   Zhang, Ru Wen ^a   Tan, Xing ^a   Yuan, Wen Jun ^a,c   Deng, Xiao Ming ^b   Wang, Wei Zhong ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Exercise training; Glutamate; Hypertension; Rostral ventrolateral medulla; Sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINASE; KYNURENIC ACID; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EXERCISE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ROSTRAL VENTROLATERAL MEDULLA; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; EXERCISE TEST; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 84875608301     PISSN: 17555930     EISSN: 17555949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cns.12065     Document Type: Article

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