Mesopontine cholinergic projections to the hypoglossal motor nucleus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 413, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-125

  Rukhadze, Irma ^a   Kubin, Leszek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Hypoglossal motoneurons; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus; REM sleep; Upper airway

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; FLUOROGOLD; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HYPOGLOSSAL NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; WAKEFULNESS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP, REM; STILBAMIDINES; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TONGUE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33846673285     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.11.059     Document Type: Article

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