Nucleus basalis magnocellularis and pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus: Control of the slow EEG waves in rats

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 153-167

  Kleiner, S ^a   Bringmann, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; TEGMENTUM;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BASAL GANGLIA; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; PONS; RATS; SLEEP;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029969222     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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