Increase of extracellular glutamate and expression of Fos-like immunoreactivity in the ventral tegmental area in response to electrical stimulation of the prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1503-1512

  Rossetti, Zvani L ^a,c   Marcangione, Caterina ^a,b   Wise, Roy A ^a,b  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Fos like immunoreactivity; Glutamate; Microdialysis; Prefrontal cortex; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; FLUOROGOLD; GLUTAMIC ACID; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0031905696     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1998.70041503.x     Document Type: Article

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