pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus
Understanding the role of cholinergic tone in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus
... To better understand the role of cholinergic signaling in specific regions of the brain, several genetically modified mice targeting the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) gene have been generated (Prado et al., ...
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The pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus and the nucleus basalis magnocellularis : Do both have a role in sustained attention?
... Understanding the neural basis of attention remains a fundamental goal of neuroscience, of as much importance to studies of information processing as it is to clinical studies of the disorders in which attention is ...
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A functional dissociation of the anterior and posterior pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus : excitotoxic lesions have differential effects on locomotion and the response to nicotine
... rior pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) change nicotine self-administration, consistent with the belief that the anterior PPTg (aPPTg) projects to substantia nigra pars compacta (SNC) and ...
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The Effects of Inactivation of Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus by Cobalt (II) Chloride on Cardiovascular Responses in Hemorrhagic Hypotensive Rats
... Introduction: Based on the evidence, the Pedunculopontine Tegmental nucleus (PPT) is involved in cardiovascular function regulation. In this study, the probable role of PPT on cardiovascular ...
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The pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus and the nucleus basalis magnocellularis : do both have a role in sustained attention?
... Understanding the neural basis of attention remains a fundamental goal of neuroscience, of as much importance to studies of information processing as it is to clinical studies of the disorders in which attention is ...
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Interactions between the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus, mesencephalic dopamine neurones and the striatum
... The lateral habenula is one of the major origins of inputs to the LDTg Satoh and Fibiger, 1986; Hallanger et al., 1987; Semba and Fibiger, 1992 and the IPN also relays information derive[r] ...
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The effect of pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus and lateral hypothalamic excitotoxic lesions on motivational strength as measured by the progressive ratio paradigm
... (Lyness et al, 1979). Thus it seems clear from the above selected studies that NAS DA is an important mechanism in the production of stimulus-reward associations. In fact, more direct evidence has come from Ljungberg, ...
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The pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus - A functional hypothesis from the comparative literature
... the pedunculopontine was targeted at all 92 ...and pedunculopontine activity was shown to be altered, 93 but given that the essential pathology of the basal ganglia will not have been affected by the DBS, ...
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Role of the Cholinergic Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus in Long-term Habituation
... Lesions of the medial septal nucleus disrupted long-term habituation potentially through modulation of the hippocampus (Cerbone and Sadile, 1994). Moreover, intracranial injections of scopolamine into the ...
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Examination of the role of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus in the control of behavioural processes
... 1989 Cholinergic projections to the substantia nigra from the pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei... 1993 Organization of the.[r] ...
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Original Article MC4R expression in pedunculopontine nucleus involved in the modulation of midbrain dopamine system
... the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) in processing aversive stimuli to dopamine systems, and melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) are broadly ex- pressed by the neurons in the PPTg, but the exact ...
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Deep brain stimulation of different pedunculopontine targets in a novel rodent model of parkinsonism
... The pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) has been proposed as a target for deep brain stimulation (DBS) in parkinsonian patients, particularly for symptoms such as gait and postural difficulties ...
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Selective lesions of the cholinergic neurons within the posterior pedunculopontine do not alter operant learning or nicotine sensitization
... These experiments examined the effects of lesions of cholinergic neurons within the posterior pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (pPPTg – also described as PPTg pars compacta) on instrumental ...
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Subthreshold ϕ meson production in nucleus-nucleus collisions
... φ(1020) meson is composed of strange quarks (s-sbar). About half of decays of this particle proceed via the K + K − channel (BR = 48.9% [5]). As the mean decay path of this particle in vacuum, c τ ≈ 46 fm [5], is larger ...
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The Fragmentation Region of High Energy Nucleus-Nucleus and Hadron-Nucleus Collisions
... large nucleus such as gold this is satisfied if the projectile has an energy larger than about 15 GeV, corresponding to a center of mass energy of the order of 30 GeV per ...
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Distribution of 2 [125I]iodomelatonin binding sites in the brain of the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) and the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
... the nucleus mesencephalicus lateralis, pars dorsalis, which is believed to be associated with the auditory system (Cassone, ...the nucleus suprachiasmaticus, which bound IMEL in sparrows (Cassone and ...
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Nucleus
... cell nucleus is a membrane bound ...The nucleus communicates with the surrounding cell cytoplasm through the nuclear ...the nucleus is responsible for the hereditary characteristics and protein ...
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The neural coding of auditory space
... NM, nucleus magnoceUularis; NL, nucleus laminaris; VLVa, nucleus ventralis lemnisci lateralis pars anterior; VLVp, nucleus ventralis lemnisci lateralis pars posterior; core, core of the [r] ...
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Effect of flavor on neuronal responses of the hypothalamus and ventral tegmental area
... In addition to reward effects, flavor might affect the neuronal activity of the hypothalamus as sweet taste without caloric intake has been shown to elicit an insulin response 22.. Howe[r] ...
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Heavy flavors in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and LHC
... high-energy nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions — addressing within a comprehensive framework the initial QQ produc- tion, the propagation in the hot medium until decoupling and the final hadronization and ...
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