Brainstem cholinergic modulation of muscle tone in infant rats
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Brainstem cholinergic modulation of muscle tone in infant rats.
In week-old rats, lesions of the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum (DLPT) and nucleus pontis oralis (PnO) have opposing effects on nuchal muscle tone. Specifically, pups with DLPT lesions exhibit prolonged bouts of nuchal muscle atonia (indicative of sleep) and pups with PnO lesions exhibit prolonged bouts of high nuchal muscle tone (indicative of wakefulness). Here we test the hypothesis that nuc...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0953-816X,1460-9568
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05566.x