Direct and Indirect Excitation of Laterodorsal Tegmental Neurons by Hypocretin/Orexin Peptides: Implications for Wakefulness and Narcolepsy

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2862-2872

  Burlet, Sophie ^a   Tyler, Christopher J ^a   Leonard, Christopher S ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypocretin; Mesopontine cholinergic neurons; Narcolepsy; Nitric oxide synthase; Orexin; REM sleep; Reticular formation; Slice; Whole cell

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; OREXIN A; OREXIN B; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CARRIER PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OREXINS; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHESIS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOUSE; NARCOLEPSY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SYNAPTOSOME; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; RETICULAR FORMATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CARRIER PROTEINS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RETICULAR FORMATION; SLEEP, REM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TETRODOTOXIN; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0036546690     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-07-02862.2002     Document Type: Article

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