Novel attempts to optimize vagus nerve stimulation parameters on serotonin neuronal firing activity in the rat brain

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 422-429

  Manta, Stella ^a   El Mansari, Mostafa ^a   Blier, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Department of Cellular and Molecular Medecine ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

depression; electrophysiology; serotonin; stimulation parameters; vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DEPRESSION; EXCITATION AND STIMULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN NEURONAL FIRING ACTIVITY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SEROTONIN; VAGUS NERVE;

RATTUS;

EID: 84864284465     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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