Phasic and tonic patterns of locus coeruleus output differentially modulate sensory network function in the awake rat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-87

  Devilbiss, David M ^a   Waterhouse, Barry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE NET; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 78651421274     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00445.2010     Document Type: Article

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