Institution
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.
Permanent Sympathectomy Enhances Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide and Substance-P Expression In Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons.
Hypertension. 32(3):604, September 1998.
Substance P: In the central nervous system, substance P has been associated in the regulation of mood disorders, anxiety, stress, reinforcement, neurogenesis, respiratory rhythm, neurotoxicity, nausea / emesis and pain.
It also has effects as a potent vasodilator. This is caused by the release of nitric oxide from the endothelium. Its release can cause hypotension.