Selective Activation of the Extended Ventrolateral Preoptic Nucleus during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 4568-4576

  Lu, Jun ^a   Bjorkum, Alvhild A ^a,b   Xu, Man ^a   Gaus, Stephanie E ^a   Shiromani, Priyattam J ^c   Saper, Clifford B ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

C Fos; Dorsal raphe nucleus; GABA; Galanin; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Locus ceruleus

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FOS; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLERA TOXIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL LABELING; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DARKNESS; DENDRITE; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONADRENERGIC NONCHOLINERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PONS; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TARGET CELL; TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPTIC AREA; RAPHE NUCLEUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHOLERA TOXIN; DARKNESS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GALANIN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHOTOPERIOD; PONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 0036617226     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-11-04568.2002     Document Type: Article

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