Increased responsiveness of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons to glutamate after repeated administration of cocaine or amphetamine is transient and selectively involves AMPA receptors

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 281, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 699-706

  Zhang, Xu Feng ^a   Hu, Xiu Ti ^a   White, Francis J ^a   Wolf, Marina E ^a,b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

1 AMINO 1,3 CYCLOPENTANEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR; AMPHETAMINE; COCAINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG SENSITIZATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

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