Thalamic δ-Subunit Containing GABAA Receptors Promote Electrocortical Signatures of Deep Non-REM Sleep But Do Not Mediate the Effects of Etomidate at the Thalamus In Vivo

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 37, 2014, Pages 12253-12266

  Mesbah Oskui, Lia ^a   Orser, Beverley A ^a,b,c   Horner, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Extrasynaptic GABAA receptors; Sleep; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; BETA 3 TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; CELL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT FACTOR D; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1A; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; CYCLIN G1; EPOXIDE HYDROLASE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC PROTEIN 6; HERMES ANTIGEN; NESTIN; NG2 PROTEIN; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN P19ARF; SECONDARY LYMPHOID TISSUE CHEMOKINE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; STEROL CARRIER PROTEIN 2; TESTIS SPECIFIC PROTEIN KINASE 1; TRANSCRIPITON FACTOR BRN2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MYT1L; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; XYLULOSE REDUCTASE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ETOMIDATE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNTING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MACROGLIA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIKE WAVE; UPREGULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SLEEP STAGE; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; ETOMIDATE; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE NET; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SLEEP STAGES; THALAMUS;

EID: 84907013301     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0618-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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