Chronic intermittent hypoxia alters neurotransmission from lateral paragigantocellular nucleus to parasympathetic cardiac neurons in the brain stem

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 380-389

  Dergacheva, Olga ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Apnea; Brain stem; Cardiac vagal neurons; Hypercapnia; Hypoxia; REM sleep

Indexed keywords

OREXIN A; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NEUROPEPTIDE; OREXINS; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HEART INNERVATION; HEART PROTECTION; HYPERCAPNIA; IN VITRO STUDY; LATERAL PARAGIGANTOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; VAGUS NERVE; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; DISEASE MODEL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BRAIN STEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPERCAPNIA; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84920901781     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00302.2014     Document Type: Article

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