The organization of central cholinergic systems and their functional importance in sleep-waking states

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 98, Issue C, 1993, Pages 61-71

  Jones, Barbara E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SLEEP;

EID: 0027490066     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)62381-X     Document Type: Article

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