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Novel Approach for Simultaneous Recording of Renal Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Blood Pressure with Intravenous Infusion in Conscious, Unrestrained Mice.
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Differential control of intrarenal blood flow during reflex increases in sympathetic nerve activity

B L Leonard1, S C Malpas, K M Denton

  • 1Circulatory Control Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. b.leonard@auckland.ac.nz

American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
|December 22, 2000
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