The Nucleus of the Solitary Tract: Processing Information from Viscerosensory Afferents

Central Regulation of Autonomic Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Andresen, Michael C ^a   Paton, Julian F R ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II; Autonomic; C fiber; Convergence; Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; GABA; Glutamate; Guanylate cyclase; Hypothalamus; Myelinated; Nitric oxide; TRPV1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921608364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306637.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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