Age-related changes in rhythmically bursting activity in the medial septum of rats

Brain Research

Volumn 876, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 37-47

  Apartis, Emmanuelle ^a   Poindessous Jazat, Frédérique ^a   Epelbaum, Jacques ^a   Bassant, Marie H ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Bursting activity; Cholinergic neuron; Paradoxical sleep; Sleep waking cycle

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AGING; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; NEURONS; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0034623097     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02571-3     Document Type: Article

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