Pyramidal neurons in rat prefrontal cortex show a complex synaptic response to single electrical stimulation of the locus coeruleus region: Evidence for antidromic activation and GABAergic inhibition using in vivo intracellular recording and electron microscopy

Synapse

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 313-331

  Branchereau, Pascal ^a   Van Bockstaele, Elisabeth J ^a   Chan, June ^a   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopic immunocytochemistry; Evoked Potentials; In vivo intracellular recording; Locus coeruleus; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BRAIN LEVEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0029966391     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2396(199604)22:4<313::aid-syn3>3.0.co;2-e     Document Type: Article

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