The pontine REM switch: Past and present

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 584, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 735-741

  Fuller, Patrick M ^a   Saper, Clifford B ^a   Lu, Jun ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CELL POPULATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOREBRAIN; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MONOAMINE NERVE CELL; MUSCLE ATONIA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PONS ANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SPINAL CORD; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; LATERAL PONTINE TEGMENTUM; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PONTINE TEGMENTUM; ROSTRAL VENTROMEDIAL MEDULLA; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE; SUBLATERODORSAL TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 35648933911     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.140160     Document Type: Review

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