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Locus coeruleus complex: elicitation of a pressor response and a brain stem region necessary for its occurrence

DG Ward, CG Gunn - Brain Research, 1976 - Elsevier

Neural control of ACTH: a homeostatic reflex.

DS Gann, DG Ward, DE Carlson - Recent progress in hormone …, 1978 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Recent Prog Horm Res. 1978; 34:357-400. Neural control of ACTH: a homeostatic reflex.
Gann DS, Ward DG, Carlson DE. PMID: 216058 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]. Publication
Types: Research Support, US Gov't, PHS; Review. MeSH Terms. ...

Stimulation of the parabrachial nuclei with monosodium glutamate increases arterial pressure

DG Ward - Brain research, 1988 - Elsevier

Abstract In the urethane-anesthetized rat both electrical stimulation (20 μA, 0.2 ms, 30 s)
through micropipettes and glutamate injections (0.1 M, 100 nl) within an area including the
dorsal lateral parabrachial nucleus, the adjacent central lateral parabrachial nucleus, the ...

Locus coeruleus complex: differential modulation of depressor mechanisms

DG Ward, CG Gunn - Brain Research, 1976 - Elsevier

In a separate report we showed that a stereotyped pressor response requiring the integrity of
the extreme ventrolateral medulla is elicitable from the locus coeruleus complex. To define
further the relationship of this system to other cardiovascular regulatory mechanisms, ...

Inhibitory and facilitatory areas of the rostral pons mediating ACTH release in the cat

DG WARD, WE GRIZZLE, DS GANN - Endocrinology, 1976 - press.endocrine.org

To define the role of the rostral pons in the control of release of ACTH, we stimulated
electrically (30 sec, 200 μA, 50 Hz) 128 sites in the dorsal rostral pons of 20 cats
anesthetized with chloralose/urethane. Responses of arterial pressure to electrical ...

Neurons in the parabrachial nuclei respond to hemorrhage

DG Ward - Brain research, 1989 - Elsevier

Abstract To examine the organization of pathways in the dorsal rostral pons that process
information from cardiovascular receptors, 62 neurons in the parabrachial nuclei were
tested, in rats anesthetized with urethane, for their response to hemorrhage (10 ml/kg· min ...

Role of atrial receptors in the control of ACTH

AJ Baertschi, DG Ward… - American Journal of …, 1976 - Am Physiological Soc

Abstract Sinusoidal volume changes (+/-1 ml) were applied at 1 Hz to the right or left atrium
of 25 anesthetized cats. Changes in firing rates of single vagal fibers and in plasma ACTH
and cortisol were observed in response to start and stop of atrial pulsation. Decreased ...

Neurons in the dorsal rostral pons process information about changes in venous return and in arterial pressure

DG Ward, AM Lefcourt, DS Gann - Brain research, 1980 - Elsevier

Summary To examine pathways in the brain stem that process informaton from cardio-
vascular receptors we tested, in cats anesthetized with chloralose/urethane, 76 neurons in
the locus coeruleus and locus subcoeruleus for their response to hemodynamic ...

Relaxin increases rat heart rate by a direct action on the cardiac atrium

DG Ward, GR Thomas, MJ Cronin - Biochemical and biophysical research …, 1992 - Elsevier

Abstract Relaxin (Rlx) is best understood as a protein hormone of pregnancy that can
influence pelvic and cervical connective tissue as well as uterine smooth muscle activity.
Thus, it was unexpected that dense Rlx binding sites would be found in the rat cardiac ...

Neural control of ACTH release in response to hemorrhage

DS Gann, DG Ward, AJ Baertschi… - Annals of the New …, 1977 - Wiley Online Library

Although Sayers and his colleagues showed in 1945 that hemorrhage increases release of
ACTH, the central neural mechanisms underlying this response remain unclear. Studies in
this laboratory, performed on dogs anesthetized with pentobarbital, have shown that ...

Rostral pontine and caudal mesencephalic control of arterial pressure and iliac, celiac and renal vascular resistance. I. Anatomic regions

DN Darlington, DG Ward - Brain research, 1985 - Elsevier

Abstract The rostral pons and caudal mesencephalon in 26 cats were electrically stimulated
(> 2400 sites) while measuring arterial pressure and iliac, celiac and renal vascular
resistance. Areas active in control of arterial pressure and iliac vasoconstriction were ...

Right and left atrial B-fiber input to the medulla of the cat

AJ Baertschi, RF Munzner, DG Ward, RN Johnson… - Brain research, 1975 - Elsevier

Organization of the Medial Hypothalamus for Control of Adrenocorticotropin in the Cat*

…, DE CARLSON, WE GRIZZLE, DG WARD… - …, 1978 - press.endocrine.org

To examine the role and interrelations of areas of the medial hypothalamus in the control of
release of ACTH, we stimulated electrically (20-sec train, 200-μA amplitude at 100 Hz) 695
sites in the hypothalamus of 91 cats anesthetized with chloralose/urethane. Changes in ...

Neurons in medullary areas controlling ACTH: atrial input and rostral projections

DG Ward, AJ Baertschi… - American Journal of …, 1977 - Am Physiological Soc

Abstract To examine hindbrain pathways mediating release of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH)
in response to hemodynamic changes we tested, in 19 cats (chloralose/urethan), 70
neurons in ACTH-active areas of the medulla for their response to volume pulsation (+/-1 ...

Rostral pontine and caudal mesencephalic control of arterial pressure and iliac, celiac and renal vascular resistance. II. Separate control and topographic organization

DN Darlington, DG Ward - Brain research, 1985 - Elsevier

Abstract A dense mapping of the rostral pons and caudal mesencephalon was performed in
26 cats using electrical stimulation while measuring arterial pressure and iliac, celiac and
renal vascular resistance to determine if these vascular beds are controlled separately. It ...

Activation of solitary nucleus neurons from the locus coeruleus and vicinity

DG Ward, AJ Baertschi, DS Gann - Neurosci. Abstr, 1975

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Inhibitory and Facilitatory Areas of the Ventral Midbrain Mediating Release of Corticotropin in the Cat*

DG WARD, MG BOLTON, DS GANN - Endocrinology, 1978 - press.endocrine.org

To examine the role of the ventral midbrain in the control of release of ACTH, we stimulated
electrically 92 sites in the mesencephalon of 15 cats anesthetized with chloralose/urethane.
Responses of arterial pressure could not account for change of release of ACTH. Three ...

Inhibitory and facilitatory areas of the dorsal medulla mediating ACTH release in the cat

DG WARD, DS GANN - Endocrinology, 1976 - press.endocrine.org

To define the role of the dorsal medulla in the control of release of ACTH, the authors
stimulated electrically (30 sec, 100 μA, 50 Hz) 50 sites in the vicinity of the solitary nuclei of
11 cats anesthetized with chloralose/urethane. Responses of arterial pressure to electrical ...

A blood pressure lowering effect of lesions of the caudal periaqueductal gray: relationship to basal pressure

DG Ward, DN Darlington - Brain research, 1987 - Elsevier

Abstract Basal mean arterial pressure (MAP) measured one week following placement of
pontine lesions was markedly lower (− 27.85 mm Hg) in cats with bilateral lesions of the
caudal periaqueductal gray than in cats with bilateral lesions of the area anteroventral to ...

Lack of cardiovascular and vasopressin responses to human relaxin in conscious, late-pregnant rats

DG Ward, MJ Cronin… - American Journal of …, 1991 - Am Physiological Soc

Abstract Measurements of arterial pressure, heart rate, and plasma vasopressin were
obtained in unanesthetized late-pregnant rats after administration of human relaxin (hRlx)
alone or in conjunction with hemorrhage. Forty-two timed-pregnant rats were prepared ...

Parabrachial pons mediates hypothalamically induced renal vasoconstriction

DG Ward, JR Adair, LP Schramm… - American Journal of …, 1978 - Am Physiological Soc

Abstract The role of the parabrachial region of the dorsal rostral pons (PB) in mediating
control of renal blood flow and of systemic arterial blood pressure was investigated in nine
cats anesthetized with chloralose-urethan. Electrical stimulation through electrodes ...

Lesions of the caudal periaqueductal gray prevent compensation of arterial pressure during hemorrhage

DG Ward, DN Darlington - Brain research, 1987 - Elsevier

Abstract Arterial pressure normally changes very little during small hemorrhage. In cats with
bilateral lesions of the region of the caudal periaqueductal gray arterial pressure and renal
vascular resistance decreased rapidly and precipitously during a 10 ml/kg· 3 min− 1 ...

Electrolytic Lesions of the Dorsal Rostral Pons Prevent Adrenocorticotropin Increases after Hemorrhage*

AM LEFCORT, DG WARD, DS GANN - Endocrinology, 1984 - press.endocrine.org

To determine if a discrete area of the dorsal rostral pons in the region of the locus coeruleus
(LC) is essential for the reflex response of ACTH to hemorrhage, chloralose anesthetized
cats with bilateral electrolytic (11 cats) or sham (3 cats) lesions were challenged with a 15 ...

ORGANIZATION OF THE PARABRACHIAL PONS FOR CONTROL OF ACTH AND OF ARTERIAL-PRESSURE IN THE CAT

DG Ward, S Shelton… - FEDERATION …, 1979 - FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP …

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Control of water intake: evidence for the role of a hemodynamic pontine pathway

DG Ward, JH Ward - Brain research, 1983 - Elsevier

Abstract Hypovolemia increases water intake. Bilateral lesions of a discrete region of the
dorsal rostral pons, that contains neurons responding to hypovolemia, markedly increases
basal water intake in cats. The critical region appears anteroventral and somewhat medial ...

Neural pathways controlling release of corticotropin (ACTH)

DS Gann, DG Ward, DE Carlson - Interaction within the Brain-Pituitary-Adrenocortical …, 1979

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Homeostasis of blood volume through hemodynamic control of ACTH and cortisol

DS Gann, AJ Baertschi, DG Ward, JC PIRKLE - … of the Fifth International Congress on …, 1976

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Datanalysis: Statistical Analysis and Design Services

DG Ward – H. M. Ward Memorial Laboratory, Valley Home, 1985

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RESPONSES OF NEURONS IN LOCUS COERULEUS TO HEMODYNAMIC CHANGES

DG Ward, AM Leftcourt… - FEDERATION …, 1978 - FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP …

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Right atrium mediates a vasomotor reflex

RF Munzner, DG Ward… - American Journal of …, 1981 - Am Physiological Soc

Abstract To examine the role of right atrial receptors in mediating reflex vascular responses
we measured, in cats anesthetized with chloralose/urethan, changes in mean arterial
pressure (MAP) in response to volume pulsation of the right atrium (+/-1 ml, 1 Hz). ...

Discrete lesions of the dorsal rostral pons prevent ACTH increases after hemorrhage

AM Lefcourt, DG Ward, HS Santana, VS Rudrow… - Soc. Neurosci. Abstr, 1979

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DISCRETE LESIONS OF THE DORSAL ROSTRAL PONS PREVENT ARTERIAL-PRESSURE COMPENSATION IN RESPONSE TO HEMORRHAGE

DG Ward, JH Kelm - FEDERATION …, 1981 - FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP …

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Response patterns of medullary neurons to analogs of hemorrhage in the cat

AM Lefcourt, DG Ward… - FEDERATION …, 1979 - FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP …

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INHIBITORY AND FACILITATORY AREAS OF VENTRAL MIDBRAIN MEDIATING RELEASE OF ACTH IN CAT

DG WARD, DS GANN - FEDERATION …, 1977 - FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP …

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ROLE OF THE CAUDAL PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY FOR CONTROL OF ARTERIAL-PRESSURE, BLOOD-VOLUME AND BODY-WEIGHT

DN Darlington, DG Ward - FEDERATION …, 1983 - FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP …

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PARABRACHIAL PONS CONTROLS SEPARATE VASCULAR BEDS, ARTERIAL-PRESSURE AND HEART-RATE

DN Darlington, DG Ward - FEDERATION …, 1982 - FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP …

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Hippocampal output and visual evoked responses: Patterns of inhibition and facilitation.

DG Ward - Biological Psychology Bulletin, 1972 - psycnet.apa.org

Abstract Examined the effects of a single pulse (. 5 msec., 1 ma.) to the hippocampus (HP)
of the cat on visual evoked responses (VERs) to stimulation (. 05 msec., 1 ma.) to the optic
tract (OT). Recordings were made from the visual cortex, posterior and anterior ...

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Autonomic mechanisms of the locus coeruleus complex: modulation of blood pressure and heart rate