Hexamethonium attenuates sympathetic activity and blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 7116-7122

  Li, Peng ^a   Gong, Jue Xiao ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Zhou, Bin ^a   Kong, Xiang Qing ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hexamethonium; Mean arterial pressure; Spontaneously hypertensive rats; Sympathetic activity

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHONIUM; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; MAXIMUM DRUG EFFECT; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; MALE; METABOLISM; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HEXAMETHONIUM; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84943653038     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2015.4315     Document Type: Article

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