Modulation of dopamine efflux in the nucleus accumbens after cholinergic stimulation of the ventral tegmental area in intact, pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus-lesioned, and laterodorsal tegmental nucleus-lesioned rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 714-722

  Blaha, Charles D ^a   Allen, Laura F ^b   Das, Sheela ^a   Inglis, Wendy L ^c   Latimer, Mary P ^b   Vincent, Steven R ^a   Winn, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Chronoamperometry; Dopamine; Ibotenate; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Nucleus accumbens; Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus; Rat; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE; IBOTENIC ACID; NEOSTIGMINE; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEOSTIGMINE; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PONS; RATS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0030030032     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-02-00714.1996     Document Type: Article

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