Effects of glutamate agonist versus procaine microinjections into the basal forebrain cholinergic cell area upon gamma and theta EEG activity and sleep-wake state

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2166-2184

  Cape, Edmund G ^a   Jones, Barbara E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; AMPA; GABA; NMDA; Rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; PROCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOREBRAIN; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; THETA RHYTHM; WAKEFULNESS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; PROCAINE; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SLEEP; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0034113214     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00099.x     Document Type: Article

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