Abbreviations
blood pressure (BP); insular cortex (IC); nitric oxide (NO); neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS); soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC); cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP); mean arterial pressure (MAP); heart rate (HR); restraint stress (RS); paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN); hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA);