Identification of the transmitter and receptor mechanisms responsible for REM sleep paralysis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 9785-9795

  Brooks, Patricia L ^a   Peever, John H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; [3 (3, 4 DICHLOROBENZYLAMINO) PROPYL] (DIETHOXYMETHYL) PHOSPHINIC ACID; BACLOFEN; BICUCULLINE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; STRYCHNINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PARASOMNIA; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REM SLEEP; TRIGEMINAL MOTOR NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BENZYLAMINES; BICUCULLINE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; GABA-B RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; GLYCINE AGENTS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PARESIS; PHOSPHINIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP, REM; STRYCHNINE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 84863895607     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0482-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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