Lucienne Léger

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Best Publications

• A role of melanin-concentrating hormone producing neurons in the central regulation of paradoxical sleep.

  Laure Verret;Romain Goutagny;Patrice Fort;Laurène Cagnon

  513
  Citations

• Afferent projections to the cat locus coeruleus as visualized by the horseradish peroxidase technique

  K. Sakai;M. Touret;D. Salvert;L. Leger

  368
  Citations

• The neuronal network responsible for paradoxical sleep and its dysfunctions causing narcolepsy and rapid eye movement (REM) behavior disorder

  Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Olivier Clément;Emilie Sapin;Damien Gervasoni

  286
  Citations

• Localization of the brainstem GABAergic neurons controlling paradoxical (REM) sleep.

  Emilie Sapin;Damien Lapray;Anne Bérod;Romain Goutagny

  271
  Citations

• Paradoxical (REM) sleep genesis: The switch from an aminergic–cholinergic to a GABAergic–glutamatergic hypothesis

  Pierre Hervé Luppi;Damien Gervasoni;Laure Verret;Romain Goutagny

  240
  Citations

• Serotonin nerve terminals in the locus coeruleus of adult rat: a radioautographic study.

  Lucienne Leger;Laurent Descarries

  238
  Citations

• Brain serotonergic circuitries

  Yves Charnay;Lucienne Léger

  225
  Citations

• The supramammillary nucleus and the claustrum activate the cortex during REM sleep

  Leslie Renouard;Leslie Renouard;Francesca Billwiller;Keiko Ogawa;Olivier Clément

  153
  Citations

• Brainstem mechanisms of paradoxical (REM) sleep generation.

  Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Olivier Clement;Emilie Sapin;Christelle Peyron

  151
  Citations

• Delineation of dorsal lateral geniculate afferents from the cat brain stem as visualized by the horseradish peroxidase technique.

  L. Leger;K. Sakai;D. Salvert;M. Touret

  136
  Citations

• Localization of the neurons active during paradoxical (REM) sleep and projecting to the locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons in the rat.

  Laure Verret;Patrice Fort;Patrice Fort;Damien Gervasoni;Damien Gervasoni;Lucienne Léger;Lucienne Léger

  134
  Citations

• Cholinergic and noncholinergic brainstem neurons expressing Fos after paradoxical (REM) sleep deprivation and recovery.

  Laure Verret;Lucienne Léger;Patrice Fort;Pierre-Hervé Luppi

  129
  Citations

• Distribution of enkephalin-immunoreactive cell bodies in relation to serotonin-containing neurons in the raphe nuclei of the cat: immunohistochemical evidence for the coexistence of enkephalins and serotonin in certain cells.

  L. Léger;Y. Charnay;P.M. Dubois;M. Jouvet

  121
  Citations

• Characterization of the melanin-concentrating hormone neurons activated during paradoxical sleep hypersomnia in rats.

  Lucie Hanriot;Nutabi Camargo;Anne Claire Courau;Lucienne Leger

  116
  Citations

• A very large number of GABAergic neurons are activated in the tuberal hypothalamus during paradoxical (REM) sleep hypersomnia.

  Emilie Sapin;Anne Bérod;Lucienne Léger;Paul A. Herman

  116
  Citations

• Evidence for the presence of enkephalin in catecholaminergic neurones of cat locus coeruleus.

  Y. Charnay;L. Leger;F. Dray;A. Bérod

  111
  Citations

• Origin and influence of the serotoninergic innervation of the subcommissural organ in the rat.

  L. Léger;A. Degueurce;J.J. Lundberg;J.F. Pujol

  107
  Citations

• Role of the melanin-concentrating hormone neuropeptide in sleep regulation

  Christelle Peyron;Emilie Sapin;Lucienne Leger;Pierre-Hervé Luppi

  102
  Citations

• NITRIC OXIDE AND SLEEP IN THE RAT: A PUZZLING RELATIONSHIP

  S. Burlet;L. Leger;R. Cespuglio

  101
  Citations

• Comparative distribution of nitric oxide synthase- and serotonin-containing neurons in the raphe nuclei of four mammalian species.

  L. Léger;Yves Charnay;Sophie Burlet

  95
  Citations