Electrical coupling: Novel mechanism for sleep-wake control

Sleep

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1405-1414

  Garcia Rill, Edgar ^a   Heister, David S ^a   Ye, Meijun ^a   Charlesworth, Amanda ^a   Hayar, Abdallah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Carbachol; Connexin 36; Gap junctions; Modafinil; Pedunculopontine; Subcoeruleus

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; CARBENOXOLONE; MEFLOQUINE; MODAFINIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LOCUS CERULEUS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 35648985151     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/30.11.1405     Document Type: Article

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