The lateral hypothalamic area controls paradoxical (REM) sleep by means of descending projections to brainstem GABAergic neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 16763-16774

  Clément, Olivier ^a,b,c   Sapin, Emilie ^d,e   Libourel, Paul Antoine ^a,b,c   Arthaud, Sébastien ^a,b,c   Brischoux, Frédéric ^a,b,c   Fort, Patrice ^a,b,c   Luppi, Pierre Hervé ^a,b,c  

^a LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d University Grenoble Alpes   (France)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; NEUROTENSIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HYPERSOMNIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REM SLEEP; REM SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROTENSIN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP, REM; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84870010334     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1885-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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