Evidence That Adrenergic Ventrolateral Medullary Cells Are Activated whereas Precerebellar Lateral Reticular Nucleus Neurons Are Suppressed during REM Sleep

Georg M. Stettner; Yanlin Lei; Kate Benincasa Herr; Leszek Kubin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062410

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Evidence That Adrenergic Ventrolateral Medullary Cells Are Activated whereas Precerebellar Lateral Reticular Nucleus Neurons Are Suppressed during REM Sleep

Georg M. Stettner,

Current address: Georg August University, Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Yanlin Lei,

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Kate Benincasa Herr,

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Leszek Kubin

* E-mail: lkubin@vet.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Evidence That Adrenergic Ventrolateral Medullary Cells Are Activated whereas Precerebellar Lateral Reticular Nucleus Neurons Are Suppressed during REM Sleep

Georg M. Stettner,
Yanlin Lei,
Kate Benincasa Herr,
Leszek Kubin

Published: April 22, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062410

About the Authors

Georg M. Stettner

Current address: Georg August University, Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology, Göttingen, Germany

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yanlin Lei

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kate Benincasa Herr

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Leszek Kubin

* E-mail: lkubin@vet.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GMS LK. Performed the experiments: GMS YL KBH LK. Analyzed the data: GMS KBH LK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LK. Wrote the paper: GMS KBH YL LK.

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