Knockdown of tyrosine hydroxylase in the nucleus of the solitary tract reduces elevated blood pressure during chronic intermittent hypoxia

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 305, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Bathina, Chandra Sekhar ^a   Rajulapati, Anuradha ^a   Franzke, Michelle ^a   Yamamoto, Kenta ^a   Cunningham, J Thomas ^a   Mifflin, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

A2 neurons; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Tyrosine hydroxylase and chronic intermittent hypoxia

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CHRONIC INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RAT; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TELEMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

A2 NEURONS; NUCLEUS OF THE SOLITARY TRACT; TYROSINE HYDROXYLASE AND CHRONIC INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA;

ADRENERGIC NEURONS; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPENDOVIRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84887011666     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00260.2013     Document Type: Article

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