Chronic depression of hypothalamic paraventricular neuronal activity produces sustained hypotension in hypertensive rats

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-100

  Geraldes, Vera ^a   Gonçalves Rosa, Nataniel ^a   Liu, Beihui ^b   Paton, Julian F R ^b   Rocha, Isabel ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; LOBELINE; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING; BREATHING RATE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REFLEX; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, WISTAR; RESPIRATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 84892434161     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2013.074823     Document Type: Article

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