Single-unit and polygraphic recordings associated with systemic or local pharmacology: A multi-purpose stereotaxic approach for the awake, anaesthetic-free, and head-restrained rat

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 88-100

  Soulière, Fabienne ^a   Urbain, Nadia ^a   Gervasoni, Damien ^a   Schmitt, Patricia ^a   Guillemort, Claude ^b   Fort, Patrice ^a   Renaud, Bernard ^a   Luppi, Pierre Hervé ^a   Chouvet, Guy ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b GFG Company   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Microiontophoresis; Micropressure drug applications; Single unit recordings; Stereotaxic head restraint; Systemic pharmacology; Unanaesthetized rat; Vigilance states monitoring

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; HALOPERIDOL;

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MICROIONTOPHORESIS; MONITORING; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STEREOTAXIS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; IONTOPHORESIS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0342323710     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4547(20000701)61:1<88::AID-JNR11>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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