Neocortical activation: Modulation by multiple pathways acting on central cholinergic and serotonergic systems

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 160-174

  Dringenberg, Hans C ^a,b   Vanderwolf, C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Basal forebrain; EEG activation; Locus coeruleus; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; KETANSERIN; METITEPINE; SCOPOLAMINE; SEROTONIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS;

EID: 0030789736     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005736     Document Type: Article

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