Cholinergic neurons sleep-wake

Cape EG and Jones, BE (1998) Differential modulation of high-frequency gamma-electroencephalogram activity and sleep-wake state by noradrenaline and serotonin microinjections into the region of cholinergic basalis neurons. J. Neurosci. 18 2653-2666. 

The development of antibodies against ChAT allowed the distribution of neurons producing acetylcholine in the nervous system to be revealed (Mesulam et al., 1983 Armstrong et al., 1983 Jones Beaudet, 1987 Vincent Reiner, 1987). In the context of control of wakefulness and REM sleep two groups of cholinergic neurons are of primary importance. Neurons located in the basal forebrain and medial septum provide the cholinergic innervation of the cerebral... 

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Holmes, C. J. Jones, B. E. (1994). Importance of cholinergic, GABAergic, serotonergic and other neurons in the medial medullary reticular formation for sleep-wake states studied by cytotoxic lesions in the cat. Neuroscience 62, 1179-200. 

Kayama, Y Ohta, M. Jodo, E. (1992). Firing of possibly cholinergic neurons in the rat laterodorsal tegmental nucleus during sleep and wakefulness. Brain Res. 569, 210-20. 

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