DESTRUCTION OF RAPHE AND LOCUS-COERULEUS AND CIRCADIAN-RHYTHMS OF RATBEHAVIORAL ACTIVITY

Authors
ZAMOSHCHINA TA GREBENNIKOVA EV LOPUKHOVA VV
Citation
Ta. Zamoshchina et al., DESTRUCTION OF RAPHE AND LOCUS-COERULEUS AND CIRCADIAN-RHYTHMS OF RATBEHAVIORAL ACTIVITY, Zurnal vyssej nervnoj deatelnosti im. I.P. Pavlova, 47(3), 1997, pp. 577-583
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Physiology,Neurosciences
Journal title
Zurnal vyssej nervnoj deatelnosti im. I.P. Pavlova → ACNP
ISSN journal
00444677
Volume
47
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
577 - 583
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-4677(1997)47:3<577:DORALA>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
The electrolytic lesions of Raphe or Locus coeruleus (I = 1-1,5 mA, 20 sec, with a change in polarity) produce a destabilization in the circ adian rhythms of the active searching behaviour (tested in the ''open field'') in rats kept under conditions of natural illumination in the period of the winter or summer solstice. The daily or circadian compon ents are substituted, respectively, for the ultra- or infradian rhythm s. If the animals are kept for 10 days under 24-h light or dark condit ions, the serotoninergic or noradrenergic deficit delays the formation of free-running rhythms.