Unilateral electrical stimulation of rat locus coeruleus elicits bilateral response of norepinephrine neurons and sustained activation of medial prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2570-2588

  Marzo, Aude ^a   Totah, Nelson K ^a   Neves, Ricardo M ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,b   Eschenko, Oxana ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal; Cortical excitability; Direct electrical stimulation; Locus coeruleus; Neuromodulation

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITABILITY; EXCITATION; FOREBRAIN; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; WORKING MEMORY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METABOLISM; MICROELECTRODE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84902665811     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00920.2013     Document Type: Article

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