Molecular control of locus coeruleus neurotransmission

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1131-1139

  Nestler, Eric J ^a   Alreja, Meenakshi ^a   Aghajanian, George K ^a  

^a Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenylyl cyclase; Antidepressants; cAMP; Opiates; Protein kinase A; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

BEHAVIOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCITABILITY; HUMAN; ION TRANSPORT; LOCUS CERULEUS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; HUMANS; LOCUS COERULEUS; NARCOTICS; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0033232479     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00158-4     Document Type: Review

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