Heterogeneous organization of the locus coeruleus projections to prefrontal and motor cortices

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6816-6821

  Chandler, Daniel J ^a   Gao, Wen Jun ^a   Waterhouse, Barry D ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL BETA-3 SUBUNIT;

EID: 84899813827     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320827111     Document Type: Article

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