GABA in locus coeruleus regulates spontaneous rapid eye movement sleep by acting on GABA(A) receptors in freely moving rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 105-108

  Kaur, Satvinder ^a   Saxena, R N ^b   Mallick, Birendra N ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

locus coeruleus; picrotoxin; rapid eye movement sleep; rapid eye movement sleep duration; rapid eye movement sleep frequency

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PICROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PICROTOXIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0031051735     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)13410-3     Document Type: Article

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