Vigilance and EEG power in rats: Effects of potent inhibitors of the neuronal nitric oxide synthase

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 356, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 56-61

  Dzoljic, Eleonora ^a   Van Leeuwen, Redmer ^a   De Vries, René ^a   Dzoljic, Mihailo R ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3 Bromo 7 nitro indazole; 7 Nitro indazole; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase; Nitric oxide synthase inhibitor; S Methyl L thiocitrulline; Sleep

Indexed keywords

CITRULLINE; INDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PTOSIS; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CHILD; CITRULLINE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDAZOLES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SLEEP; THIOUREA;

EID: 0030974437     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005028     Document Type: Article

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