Identification of sleep-promoting neurons in vitro

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6781, 2000, Pages 992-995

  Gallopin, Thierry ^a,b   Fort, Patrice ^b   Eggermann, Emmanuel ^a   Cauli, Bruno ^c   Luppi, Pierre Hervé ^b   Rossier, Jean ^c   Audinat, Etienne ^c   Mühlethaler, Michel ^a   Serafin, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b Neurobiologie Etats Sommeil d'Eveil   (France)

^c Brain Plasticity Unit   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CARBACHOL; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HISTAMINE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; SEROTONIN; SLEEP;

EID: 0034720140     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35010109     Document Type: Article

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