Tonic regulation of the activity of noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus of the conscious rat studied by dual-probe microdialysis

Brain Research

Volumn 823, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 42-48

  Kawahara, Yukie ^b   Kawahara, Hiroshi ^c   Westerink, Ben H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

GABA; Glutamate; Locus coeruleus; Microdialysis; Noradrenaline; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; [3 (3,4 DICHLOROBENZYLAMINO)PROPYL](DIETHOXYMETHYL)PHOSPHINIC ACID; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ATROPINE; BACLOFEN; BICUCULLINE; CLONIDINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IDAZOXAN; KAINIC ACID; MECAMYLAMINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; OXOTREMORINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 0033608745     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01062-8     Document Type: Article

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