Recording sympathetic nerve activity chronically in rats: Surgery techniques, assessment of nerve activity, and quantification

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 305, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Stocker, Sean D ^a   Muntzel, Martin S ^b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Lumbar; Renal; Splanchnic; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTIFACT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; HEART CYCLE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; LUMBAR; RENAL; SPLANCHNIC; TELEMETRY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMODYNAMICS; KIDNEY; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84887598846     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00173.2013     Document Type: Review

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