The effects of tonic locus ceruleus output on sensory-evoked responses of ventral posterior medial thalamic and barrel field cortical neurons in the awake rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 48, 2004, Pages 10773-10785

  Devilbiss, David M ^a   Waterhouse, Barry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response relationship; Locus ceruleus; Norepinephrine; Single unit recording; Somatosensory cortex; Somatosensory thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LATENT PERIOD; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 10044295969     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1573-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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