Hypothalamic Paraventricular and Arcuate Nuclei Contribute to Elevated Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Pregnant Rats: Roles of Neuropeptide Y and α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone

Hypertension

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1191-1198

  Shi, Zhigang ^a   Cassaglia, Priscila A ^a   Gotthardt, Laura C ^a   Brooks, Virginia L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

arcuate nucleus; neuropeptide Y; paraventricular nucleus; pregnancy; proopiomelanocortin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CHLORALOSE; MELANOCORTIN 3 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL; N ACETYL ALPHA INTERMEDIN[4-10]CYCLO[4 NORLEUCINE 5 ASPARTIC ACID 7 [3 (2 NAPHTHYL)ALANINE] 10 LYSINAMIDE]; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; INTERMEDIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y-Y1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSOR RESPONSE; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; KIDNEY NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL ROOT; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; SYMPATHETIC TONE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INNERVATION; KIDNEY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISCERA;

ALPHA-MSH; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS OF HYPOTHALAMUS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS; KIDNEY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MELANOCYTE-STIMULATING HORMONES; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 3; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISCERA;

EID: 84947486537     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.06045     Document Type: Article

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