Reduction of the extracellular level of glutamate in the median raphe nucleus associated with hippocampal theta activity in the anaesthetized rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-57

  Varga, V ^a   Kekesi, A ^b   Juhasz, G ^b   Kocsis, B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSURGERY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acids; GABA; Limbic forebrain; Microdialysis; Pontine reticular formation; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIALYSATE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; MALE; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0031891436     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00489-2     Document Type: Article

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