Dorsomedial pontine neurons with descending projections to the medullary reticular formation express orexin-1 and adrenergic α2A receptor mRNA

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 459, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 115-118

  Volgin, Denys V ^a   Malinowska, Monika ^a   Kubin, Leszek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenergic receptors; Hypocretin; Motor atonia; Pons; REM sleep; Single cell RT PCR

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPHA 2A ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; FLUORESCEIN; LATEX; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MICROSPHERE; OREXIN 1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SLICE; CELL LABELING; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PONS; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; FLUORESCEIN; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RETICULAR FORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 66049109681     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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