Firing activity and postsynaptic properties of morphologically identified neurons of ventral oral pontine reticular nucleus

Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1165-1175

  Nuez A ^a   Rodrigo Angulo, M L ^a   De Andres I ^a   Reinoso Suarez F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Cat; Glutamate; Paradoxical sleep; Rapid eye movements sleep; Urethane anesthesia

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ATROPINE; BIOCYTIN; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; URETHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MICROPIPETTE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURONS; PONS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RETICULAR FORMATION; SLEEP, REM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037121632     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00478-5     Document Type: Article

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