Estradiol alters the chemosensitive cardiac afferent reflex in female rats by augmenting sympathoinhibition and attenuating sympathoexcitation

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 622-631

  Pinkham, Maximilian I ^a   Barrett, Carolyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cardiac afferent; Myocardial infarction; Sex; Sympathetic nerve

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; EPICARDIUM; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART INNERVATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART NERVE; HEART RATE; KIDNEY NERVE; MALE; MENOPAUSE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRESSORECEPTOR; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEFICIENCY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; TRENDS; WISTAR RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; PRESSORECEPTORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VAGOTOMY;

EID: 84930347519     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1440-1681.12392     Document Type: Article

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