Sleep-waking discharge of neurons in the posterior lateral hypothalamus of the albino rat

Brain Research

Volumn 840, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 138-147

  Steininger, Teresa L ^a,b   Alam, Md Noor ^a,b   Gong, Hui ^a   Szymusiak, Ronald ^a,b   McGinty, Dennis ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Histamine; Hypothalamus; Microwire; REM; Sleep; Tuberomammillary

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033523474     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01648-0     Document Type: Article

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