Prazosin increases immobility episodes in taiep rats without changes in the properties of α1 receptors

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 412, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-162

  Cortés, Ma del Carmen ^a   Arias Montaño, José A ^b   Eguibar, José R ^a  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cataplexy; Monoamines; Myelin mutant; Narcolepsy; Noradrenaline; REM sleep

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; PRAZOSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TISSUE; CATAPLEXY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMOGENATE; IMMOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CATAPLEXY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEREDITARY CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEMYELINATING DISEASES; MALE; PRAZOSIN; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1;

EID: 33846065074     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.10.048     Document Type: Article

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