Hypocretin (orexin) activation and synaptic innervation of the locus coeruleus noradrenergic system

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 415, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-159

  Horvath, Tamas L ^a   Peyron, Christelle ^b   Diano, Sabrina ^a   Ivanov, Alexander ^c   Aston Jones, Gary ^c   Kilduff, Thomas S ^b   Van Den Pol, Anthony N ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Electrophysiology; Lateral hypothalamus; Locus coeruleus; Monkey; Norepinephrine; Rat; Ultrastructural immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MONKEY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MSH RELEASE-INHIBITING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TETRODOTOXIN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0033552658     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19991213)415:2<145::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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