Serotonin at the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus suppresses rapid-eye- movement sleep in freely behaving rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 7541-7552

  Horner, Richard L ^a,b   Sanford, Larry D ^a   Annis, Douglas ^a   Pack, Allan I ^a   Morrison, Adrian R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Control of breathing; Diaphragm; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Pons; Ponto geniculo occipital waves; Rapid eye movement sleep; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING MUSCLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0030815072     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-19-07541.1997     Document Type: Article

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