Reply to Grace: Role of cholinergic neurons in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep control

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

Volumn 112, Issue 29, 2015, Pages E3756-

  Van Dort, Christa J ^a,b   Brown, Emery N ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; FIRING RATE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; ANIMAL; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; MALE; SLEEP, REM; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 84944758863     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1506854112     Document Type: Letter

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