Behavioral and sleep/wake characteristics of mice lacking norepinephrine and hypocretin

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 451-457

  Hunsley, M S ^a,b   Curtis, W R ^a   Palmiter, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypocretin; Knockout mice; Narcolepsy; Norepinephrine; Orexin; Sleep latency

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; OREXIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DBH GENE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NARCOLEPSY; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; VIDEORECORDING;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROPEPTIDES; REACTION TIME; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33746916070     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2005.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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