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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 15, 期 4, 页码 774-778出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.01907.x
关键词
rat; REM sleep; substantia nigra; ventral tegmental area
Evidence suggests that dopaminergic neurons of the ventral mesencephalic tegmentum (VMT) could be important for paradoxical sleep (PS). Here, we examined whether dopamine (DA) and adjacent gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-synthesizing neurons are active in association with PS recovery as compared to PS deprivation or control conditions in different groups of rats by using c-Fos expression as a reflection of neural activity, combined with dual immunostaining for tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) or glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD). Numbers of TH+ /c-Fos(+) neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) were not significantly different across groups, whereas those in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) were significantly different and greatest in PS recovery. Numbers of GAD(+) /c-Fos(+) neurons in both VTA and SN were greatest in PS recovery. Thus, DA neuronal activity does not appear to be suppressed by local GABAergic neuronal activity during PS but might be altered in pattern by this inhibitory as well as other excitatory, particularly cholinergic, inputs such as to allow DA VTA neurons to become maximally active during PS and thereby contribute to the unique physiological and cognitive aspects of that state.
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