Amygdala lesions reduce cataplexy in orexin knock-out mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9734-9742

  Burgess, Christian R ^a,b   Oishi, Yo ^a   Mochizuki, Takatoshi ^a   Peever, John H ^b   Scammell, Thomas E ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; OREXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CACAO; CATAPLEXY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NARCOLEPSY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CATAPLEXY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROPEPTIDES;

EID: 84878510276     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5632-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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