Corticotropin-releasing factor acting at the locus coeruleus disrupts thalamic and cortical sensory-evoked responses

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2020-2030

  Devilbiss, David M ^a   Waterhouse, Barry D ^b   Berridge, Craig W ^a   Valentino, Rita ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coeruleus ceruleus ; cortex (somatosensory); corticotropin releasing factor (CRF); norepinephrine noradrenaline ; thalamus (somatosensory)

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FOREBRAIN; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRESS; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84863988242     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.50     Document Type: Review

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