Potent excitatory influence of prefrontal cortex activity on noradrenergic locus coeruleus neurons

Neuroscience

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-79

  Jodo, E ^a,c   Chiang, C ^a,d   Aston Jones, G ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; D,L homocysteic acid; Frontal cortex; Glutamate; Lidocaine; Stimulation

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LATENT PERIOD; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; LIDOCAINE; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PENTOBARBITAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0032032326     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00372-2     Document Type: Article

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