Renal Denervation Improves Exaggerated Sympathoexcitation in Rats With Heart Failure: A Role for Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase in the Paraventricular Nucleus

Hypertension

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 175-184

  Patel, Kaushik P ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Liu, Xuefei ^a   Sharma, Neeru M ^a   Zheng, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

central nervous system; heart failure; neurons; nitric oxide synthase; sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANGIOTENSIN II; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NORADRENALIN;

ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANGIOTENSIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; HEART FAILURE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY DENERVATION; KIDNEY NERVE; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN URINE LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYMPATHETIC TONE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; DISEASE MODEL; INNERVATION; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; REFERENCE VALUE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURGERY;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART FAILURE; KIDNEY; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84967195443     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.06794     Document Type: Article

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