Intracerebroventricular administration of corticotropin-releasing factor antagonist attenuates arousal response accompanied by yawning behavior in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 433, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 205-208

  Kita, Ichiro ^a   Kubota, Natsuko ^a   Yanagita, Shinya ^a   Motoki, Chiharu ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arousal; CRF; Paraventricular nucleus; Yawning

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; YAWNING;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; YAWNING;

EID: 40849140690     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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