Nicotine-induced excitation of locus coeruleus neurons is blocked by elevated levels of endogenous kynurenic acid

Synapse

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 104-108

  Savtchenko, Leonid P ^a   Korogod, Sergey M ^a   Rusakov, Dmitri A ^b  

^a OLES HONCHAR DNIPRO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glutamate; Noradrenaline; PNU 156561A

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY AMINO ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENIC ACID; KYNURENINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; PNU 156561A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BETA-CYCLODEXTRINS; BUTYRATES; CYCLODEXTRINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GANGLIONIC STIMULANTS; KYNURENIC ACID; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURONS; NICOTINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0033939657     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2396(200008)37:2<104::aid-syn4>3.0.co;2-l     Document Type: Article

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