Pulsatile compression of the rostral ventrolateral medulla in hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 29, Issue 1 II, 1997, Pages 514-518

  Morimoto, Satoshi ^a   Sasaki, Susumu ^a   Miki, Shigeyuki ^a   Kawa, Tetsuyoshi ^a   Itoh, Hiroshi ^a   Nakata, Tetsuo ^a   Takeda, Kazuo ^a   Nakagawa, Masao ^a   Naruse, Shoji ^a   Maeda, Tomoho ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

essential hypertension; magnetic resonance imaging; neurogenic hypertension; neurovascular compression; pulsatile compression; rostral ventrolateral medulla; sympathetic nerve activity

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

EID: 85026152590     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.29.1.514     Document Type: Article

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