Noradrenergic modulation of hypoglossal motoneuron excitability: Developmental and putative state-dependent mechanisms

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Funk, G D ^a,b   Zwicker, J D ^a   Selvaratnam, R ^b   Robinson, D M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Locus subcoeruleus; Motoneuron; Norepineprhine; Persistent inward current; REM sleep atonia; Upper airway; XII

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GLUTAMIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; ANIMAL; BREATHING MUSCLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; INNERVATION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REM SLEEP; REVIEW;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADRENERGIC AGENTS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; SLEEP, REM; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84857419576     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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