Publication Date:
1994-01-14
Description:
The vagus nerve exerts a profound influence on the heart, regulating the heart rate and rhythm. An extensive vagal innervation of the cardiac ventricles and the central origin and extent of this innervation was demonstrated by transynaptic transport of pseudorabies virus with a virulent and two attenuated pseudorabies viral strains. The neurons that innervate the ventricles are numerous, and their distribution within the nucleus ambiguus and dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus is similar to that of neurons innervating other cardiac targets, such as the sino-atrial node. These data provide a neuroanatomical correlate to the physiological influence of the vagus nerve on ventricular function.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Standish, A -- Enquist, L W -- Schwaber, J S -- MH-43787/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jan 14;263(5144):232-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Neural Computation Group, E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, DE 19880-0323.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8284675" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Brain Mapping
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Heart Ventricles/*innervation/microbiology
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Herpesvirus 1, Suid/pathogenicity/*physiology
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Interneurons/cytology
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Medulla Oblongata/*anatomy & histology/microbiology
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Motor Neurons/cytology
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Neural Pathways
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Rats
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Rats, Wistar
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Vagus Nerve/*anatomy & histology/microbiology
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Virulence
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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