Dreaming Sleep Attacks and Desynchronized Sleep Enhancement

Ja, Hobson

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1975.01760290089011

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“…This system plays an important role in the modulation of numerous functions, including the sleep-wake cycle (5,6), attention (7), learning and memory (8), vigilance (9), mood (10)(11)(12), and opioid withdrawal (13)(14)(15). Noradrenaline (NA) is released from varicose nerve terminals upon arrival of action potentials generated in the cell soma, as shown with microdialysis techniques (16)(17)(18)(19) and amperometry (20).…”

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Long latency of evoked quantal transmitter release from somata of locus coeruleus neurons in rat pontine slices

Huang

Wang²,

Yao³

et al. 2007

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The locus coeruleus (LC) harbors a compact group of noradrenergic cell bodies projecting to virtually all parts of the central nervous system. By using combined measurements of amperometry and patch-clamp, quantal vesicle release of noradrenaline (NA) was detected as amperometric spikes, after depolarization of the LC neurons. After a pulse depolarization, the average latency of amperometric spikes was 1,870 ms, whereas the latency of glutamate-mediated excitatory postsynaptic currents was 1.6 ms. A substantial fraction of the depolarization-induced amperometric spikes originated from the somata. In contrast to glutamate-mediated excitatory postsynaptic currents, NA secretion was strongly modulated by the action potential frequency (0.5-50 Hz). Somatodendritic NA release from LC upon enhanced cell activity produced autoinhibition of firing and of NA release. We conclude that, in contrast to classic synaptic transmission, quantal NA release from LC somata is characterized by a number of distinct properties, including long latency and high sensitivity to action potential frequency.amperometry ͉ patch-clamp ͉ somatic release ͉ brain slice ͉ catecholamine

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