Role of Brain Alpha 1B-adrenoceptors in Modafinil-induced Behavioral Activity

Overview

Journal Synapse

Specialty Neurology

Date 2002 Oct 10

PMID 12373742

Citations 24

Authors

Eric A Stone

Susanna Cotecchia

Yan Lin

David Quartermain

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Abstract

These studies show that either central pharmacological blockade or genetic ablation of alpha(1B)-adrenoceptors markedly attenuates the behavioral activation caused by modafinil, implicating these receptors in the drug's action.

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