Wakefulness-Inducing Area in the Brainstem Excites Warm-Sensitive and Inhibits Cold-Sensitive Neurons in the Medial Preoptic Area in Anesthetized Rats

Synapse

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-70

  Mallick, Birendra N ^a   Jha, Sushil K ^a,b   Islam, Fakhrul ^a,c  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Midbrain reticular formation; mPOAH; Sleep wakefulness; Thermoregulation; Thermosensitive neurons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN STEM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WAKEFULNESS;

ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN STEM; COLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEAT; MALE; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0242664938     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10283     Document Type: Article

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