The effects of prolactin on the mesopontine tegmental neurons

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 257-258

  Takahashi, Kazumi ^a,b   Koyama, Yosimasa ^a   Kayama, Yukihiko ^a   Yamamoto, Mitsuaki ^b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholinergic neurons; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Paradoxical sleep; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; RAT; REM SLEEP; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; MALE; NEURONS; PONS; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP, REM; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 0033921131     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00668.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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