Regulation of the release of serotonin in the dorsal raphe nucleus by α1 and α2 adrenoceptors

Synapse

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-82

  Pudovkina, Olga L ^a   Cremers, Thomas I F H ^a   Westerink, Ben H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

1; 2; Adrenoceptors; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Microdialysis; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

2 (1 METHYL 2 ISOINDOLINYLMETHYL) 2 IMIDAZOLINE; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CIRAZOLINE; PRAZOSIN; SEROTONIN;

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN RELEASE;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CLONIDINE; IMIDAZOLES; INDOLES; MALE; NEURONS; PONS; PRAZOSIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0042921502     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10245     Document Type: Article

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