Fig. 19
From: Long-term blood pressure control: is there a set-point in the brain?
Distribution of neurons containing neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS neurons) in the rat brain, modified from Ref. [77]. Red bars nNOS neuronal area where its number was increased in salt-sensitive hypertensive rats compared with salt-sensitive normotensive rats. Red characters of the name show the part of sympathetic center. Numbers are the plate number in the book by George Paxinos, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, London: Academic, 1988). PVN paraventricular nucleus, SON supraoptic nuecleus, DMH dorsomedial hypothalamus, PAG periaqueductal grey matter, PB parabrachial nucleus, NTS nucleus tractus solitarius, RM raphe magnus, RVLM rostral ventrolateral medulla, CVLM caudal ventrolateral medulla, CPA caudal pressor area, IML intermediolateral column