中脑
桥
被盖
脑干
神经科学
旁正中桥网状结构
前脑
网状结构
基底前脑
网状激活系统
解剖
病变
被盖腹侧区
生物
心理学
医学
中枢神经系统
多巴胺
病理
多巴胺能
作者
Yuan-Yang Lai,T. Shalita,Tünde Hajnik,Juyou Wu,Jon‐Son Kuo,Lie‐Gan Chia,Jerome M. Siegel
出处
期刊:Neuroscience
[Elsevier BV]
日期:1999-02-01
卷期号:90 (2): 469-483
被引量:44
标识
DOI:10.1016/s0306-4522(98)00429-1
摘要
The dorsal regions of the midbrain and pons have been found to participate in sleep regulation. However, the physiological role of the ventral brainstem in sleep regulation remains unclear. We used N-methyl-d-aspartate-induced lesions of the ventral midbrain and pons to address this question. Unlike dorsal mesencephalic reticular formation lesions, which produce somnolence and electroencephalogram synchronization, we found that ventral midbrain lesions produce insomnia and hyperactivity. Marked increases in waking and decreases in slow wave sleep stage 1 (S1), stage 2 (S2) and rapid eye movement sleep were found immediately after the lesion. Sleep gradually increased, but never returned to baseline levels (baseline/month 1 post-lesion: waking, 30.6±4.58%/62.3±10.1%; S1, 5.1±0.74/3.9±1.91%; S2, 46.2±4.74%/23.1±5.47%; rapid eye movement sleep, 14.1±3.15%/7.2±5.42%). These changes are comparable in magnitude to those seen after basal forebrain lesions. Neuronal degeneration was found in the ventral rostral pons and midbrain, including the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area, retrorubral nucleus, and ventral mesencephalic and rostroventral pontine reticular formation. We conclude that nuclei within the ventral mesencephalon and rostroventral pons play an important role in sleep regulation.
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