Effects of cervical vagus nerve stimulation on amygdala-evoked responses of the medial prefrontal cortex neurons in rat

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 122-125

  Lyubashina, Olga ^a   Panteleev, Sergey ^a  

^a PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Medial prefrontal cortex; Neuronal activity; Nitric oxide; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

7 NITROINDAZOLE; NITRIC OXIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INDAZOLES; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 67650479965     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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