Orexinergic projections to the cat midbrain mediate alternation of emotional behavioural states from locomotion to cataplexy

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 568, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1003-1020

  Takakusaki, Kaoru ^a   Takahashi, Kasumi ^b   Saitoh, Kazuya ^a   Harada, Hirofumi ^a   Okumura, Toshikatsu ^a   Kayama, Yukihiko ^b   Koyama, Yoshimasa ^b,c  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; OREXIN A; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAT; CATAPLEXY; CELL FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTIONALITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; MUSCLE ATONIA; MUSCLE TONE; NARCOLEPSY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TREADMILL EXERCISE; ANIMAL CELL; BRAIN STEM; CUNEIFORM NUCLEUS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERODORSAL TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; NERVE CELL; OREXINERGIC NEURON; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; TREADMILL TEST;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN STEM; CATAPLEXY; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMOTIONS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 27844592708     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.085829     Document Type: Article

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