Parabrachial nucleus
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receives direct gustatory input from nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) and serves as an important taste relay to other taste-responsive areas of the CNS; also serves as a major integrative center that links the forebrain and medullo-spinal cardiovascular control.
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- Evidence suggesting that lateral parabrachial nucleus is responsible for enhanced medullary cholinergic activity in hypertension.
- The region of the pontine parabrachial nucleus is a major target of dehydration-sensitive CRH neurons in the rat lateral hypothalamic area.
- My laboratory is interested in how excitatory synaptic transmission in the rat parabrachial nucleus is modulated by amines and peptides.
- The rat pontine parabrachial nucleus is a prominent recipient of autonomic-related information from the more caudal levels of the neuraxis.
- It is concluded that the parabrachial nucleus is involved in the activation of the nucleus basalis–prefrontal cortex system, essential in gnostic and mnemonic functions.
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