Hypocretin and nicotine excite the same thalamocortical synapses in prefrontal cortex: Correlation with improved attention in rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 5225-5229

  Lambe, Evelyn K ^a,b   Olausson, Peter ^a   Horst, Nicole K ^a   Taylor, Jane R ^a   Aghajanian, George K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Yale University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

4 2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; Behavior; Divided attention; Orexin; Rat; Two photon

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; OREXIN; OREXIN B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCIUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PHOTONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 19444377722     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0719-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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