Dorsal Raphe Dopamine Neurons Modulate Arousal and Promote Wakefulness by Salient Stimuli

Neuron

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1205-1219.e8

  Cho, Jounhong Ryan ^a   Treweek, Jennifer B ^b   Robinson, J Elliott ^b   Xiao, Cheng ^b   Bremner, Lindsay R ^b   Greenbaum, Alon ^b   Gradinaru, Viviana ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

arousal; chemogenetics; dopamine; dorsal raphe nucleus; fiber photometry; in vivo optical imaging during behavior; optogenetics; salience; sleep wake state; ventral periaqueductal gray

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLEEP WALKING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMMOBILIZATION; OPTOGENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REM SLEEP; SLEEP;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MICE; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOMETRY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 85020123318     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.05.020     Document Type: Article

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