Anatomical demonstration of a medullary enkephalinergic pathway potentially implicated in the oro-facial muscle atonia of paradoxical sleep in the cat

Sleep Research Online

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 102-108

  Fort, Patrice ^a   Rampon, Claire ^a   Gervasoni, Damien ^a   Peyron, Christelle ^a   Luppi, Pierre Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENKEPHALIN; METHIONINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; CYTOLOGY; FACE MUSCLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLISM; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REM SLEEP; RETICULAR FORMATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; ENKEPHALINS; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METHIONINE; MUSCLE TONUS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 0032229149     PISSN: 1096214X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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