Descending projections of the hamster intergeniculate leaflet: Relationship to the sleep/arousal and visuomotor systems

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 487, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 204-216

  Morin, Lawrence P ^a   Blanchard, Jane H ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian; Hypocretin; Orexin; Pedunculopontine; Pregeniculate; REM; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

LEUKOAGGLUTININ; OREXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HAMSTER; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERIOR OLIVE; INTERGENICULATE LEAFLET; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SLEEP; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TROCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; CRICETINAE; EYE MOVEMENTS; GENICULATE BODIES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SLEEP;

EID: 18744401738     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20546     Document Type: Article

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