Nicotine affects the occipital theta rhythm after lesion of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus in rats

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 102-107

  Bringmann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nicotine; Occipital EEG; Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus; Physostigmine; Rat; Theta rhythm; Unrestrained behaviour

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; IBOTENIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NICOTINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEGMENTUM; THETA RHYTHM;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GROOMING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; RATS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0030991690     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: 14230224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000119399     Document Type: Article

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