Nitric oxide stimulates glutamatergic synaptic inputs to baroreceptor neurons through potentiation of Cav2.2-mediated Ca2+ currents

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 567, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-62

  Li, De Pei ^a   Chen, Shao Rui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Baroreceptor; Brainstem; Glutamate; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

CAV2.2 CALCIUM CHANNEL; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS;

BARORECEPTOR; BRAINSTEM; CA(2+) CHANNELS; GLUTAMATE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS, N-TYPE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDRAZINES; MALE; MINIATURE POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; PRESSORECEPTORS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84898645608     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.03.036     Document Type: Article

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