Dr. Christopher S Leonard DDS
Dentist
5550 S East St Suite A Indianapolis IN, 46227About
Dr. Christopher Leonard is a Dentist practicing in Indianapolis, IN. Dr. Leonard specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases and conditions associated with the mouth and overall dental health. Dentists are trained to carry out such treatment as professional cleaning, restorative, prosthodontic, and endodontic procedures, and performing examinations, among many others.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Direct and indirect excitation of laterodorsal tegmental neurons by Hypocretin/Orexin peptides: implications for wakefulness and narcolepsy.
- Distinct narcolepsy syndromes in Orexin receptor-2 and Orexin null mice:
- Hypocretin/orexin peptide signaling in the ascending arousal system: elevation of intracellular calcium in the mouse dorsal raphe and laterodorsal tegmentum.
- Specific functions of synaptically localized potassium channels in synaptic
- Urotensin II modulates rapid eye movement sleep through activation of brainstem cholinergic neurons.
- Urotensin II acts as a modulator of mesopontine cholinergic neurons.
- Transmitter modulation of spike-evoked calcium transients in arousal related neurons: muscarinic inhibition of SNX-482-sensitive calcium influx.
- Cholinergic modulation of narcoleptic attacks in double orexin receptor knockout mice.
- Knockouts reveal overlapping functions of M(2) and M(4) muscarinic receptors and
- Differential actions of orexin receptors in brainstem cholinergic and monoaminergic neurons revealed by receptor knockouts: implications for orexinergic signaling in arousal and narcolepsy.
- Orexin Receptor Activation Generates Gamma Band Input to Cholinergic and Serotonergic Arousal System Neurons and Drives an Intrinsic Ca(2+)-Dependent Resonance in LDT and PPT Cholinergic Neurons.
- Hypocretin/Orexin Peptides Alter Spike Encoding by Serotonergic Dorsal Raphe Neurons through Two Distinct Mechanisms That Increase the Late Afterhyperpolarization.
- Dual-transmitter systems regulating arousal, attention, learning and memory.
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