Cholinergic stimulation of the nucleus basalis of Meynert and reticular thalamic nucleus affects spike-and-wave discharges in WAG/Rij rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 463, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 249-253

  Berdiev, Rustam K ^a   van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Carbachol; Nucleus basalis; Reticular thalamic nucleus; Scopolamine; WAG Rij rat

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; SCOPOLAMINE;

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WISTAR ALBINO GLAXO RAT;

ANIMALS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CARBACHOL; CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MALE; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; SCOPOLAMINE; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 68949215496     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.068     Document Type: Article

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