Quinolinic acid lesions of the pedunculopontine nucleus impair sleep architecture, but not locomotion, exploration, emotionality or working memory in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 482-490

  Hernández Chan, Nancy G ^a   Góngora Alfaro, José L ^a   Álvarez Cervera, Fernando J ^a   Solís Rodríguez, Francisco A ^a   Heredia López, Francisco J ^a   Arankowsky Sandoval, Gloria ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Pedunculopontine; Sleep; Spontaneous alternation

Indexed keywords

QUINOLINIC ACID;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL LOSS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME; WAKEFULNESS; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; EMOTIONS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; QUINOLINIC ACID; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 80052969291     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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