Serotonin activates catecholamine neurons in the solitary tract nucleus by increasing spontaneous glutamate inputs

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 16530-16538

  Cui, Ran Ji ^a   Roberts, Brandon L ^a   Zhao, Huan ^a   Zhu, Mingyan ^a   Appleyard, Suzanne M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPIKE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PIPERAZINES; PYRAZINES; QUINOXALINES; RECEPTORS, PRESYNAPTIC; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT3; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR AGONISTS; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84869060663     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1372-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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