Essential role of RVL medullary neuronal activity in the long term maintenance of hypertension in conscious SHR

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 186, Issue C, 2014, Pages 22-31

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

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hypertension; Lentiviral vector; Potassium channels (Kir2.1); Rostroventrolateral medulla; Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR); Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR2.1; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; KCNJ2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CHEMORECEPTOR REFLEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEDULLO CERVICAL PRESSOR AREA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROSTROVENTROLATERAL MEDULLA; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; HUMAN; LENTIVIRINAE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENTIVIRUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RATS, INBRED SHR;

EID: 84927716346     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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