Differential enhancement of dialysate serotonin levels in distinct brain regions of the awake rat by modafinil: Possible relevance for wakefulness and depression

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 107-112

  Ferraro, Luca ^a   Fuxe, Kjell ^b   Tanganelli, Sergio ^a   Tomasini, Maria Cristina ^a   Rambert, Francis A ^a   Antonelli, Tiziana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Neuropsychopharmacologie   (France)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cerebral cortex; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Hypothalamus; Microdialysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; MODAFINIL; SEROTONIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIALYSATE; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DOSE RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICRODIALYSIS; NARCOLEPSY; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; WAKEFULNESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DEPRESSION; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMODIALYSIS SOLUTIONS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; PREOPTIC AREA; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0036220888     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10196     Document Type: Article

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