Effects of the vigilance promoting drug modafinil on the synthesis of GABA and glutamate in slices of rat hypothalamus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 181-185

  De La Mora, Miguel Pérez ^a   Aguilar García, Alejandro ^a   Ramon Frías, Teresa ^b   Ramírez Ramírez, Rosana ^a   Méndez Franco, Jesús ^a   Rambert, Francis ^c   Fuxe, Kjell ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ AUTÓNOMA DE TABASCO   (Mexico)

^c Association Pour la Neuro Psycho Pharmacologie   (France)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aminobutyric acid; Glutamate; Hypothalamus; Modafinil; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODAFINIL;

ALERTNESS; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033555585     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00905-7     Document Type: Article

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