Single-unit responses of serotonergic medullary and pontine raphe neurons to environmental cooling in freely moving cats

Neuroscience

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 301-309

  Martin Cora F J ^a   Fornal, C A ^a   Metzler, C W ^a   Jacobs, B L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic and motor activity; Cold exposure; Serotonin; Stress; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; THERMOREGULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CATS; COLD; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0343092041     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(00)00133-0     Document Type: Article

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