The pharmacology of mesocortical dopamine neurons: A dual-probe microdialysis study in the ventral tegmental area and prefrontal cortex of the rat brain

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 143-154

  Westerink, B H C ^a,c   Enrico, P ^b   Feimann, J ^a   De Vries, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 3 AMINO 1 HYDROXY 2 PYRROLIDINONE; 4 (3 PHOSPHONOPROPYL) 2 PIPERAZINECARBOXYLIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BACLOFEN; DIZOCILPINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GABA AGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0031968889     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Abercrombie ED, Keefe KA, Difrischia DS and Zigmond MJ (1989) Differential effects of stress on in vivo dopamine release in striatum, nucleus accumbens. and medial cortex. J Neurochem 52:1655-1658.
2. Bayer VE and Pickel VM (1991) GABA-labelled terminals form proportionally more synapses with dopaminergic neurones having low densities of tyrosine immuno-reactivity in rat ventral tegmental area. Brain Res 559:44-55.
3. Blackburn JR, Pfaus JG and Phillips AG (1992) Dopamine functions in appetitive and defensive behaviours. Prog Neurobiol (Oxford) 39:247-279.
4. Calabresi P, Lacey MG and North RA (1989) Nicotinic excitation of rat ventral tegmental neurones in vitro studied by intracellular recording. Br J Pharmacol 98:135-140.
5. Charlety PJ, Grenhoff J, Chergru K, De La Chapelle B, Buda M, Svensson TH and Chouvet G (1991) Burst firing of mesencephalic dopamine neurons is inhibited by somatodendritic application of kynurenate. Acta Physiol Scand 142:105-112.
6. Chergui K Charlety PJ, Akaoka H, Saunier CF, Brunet JL, Buda M, Svensson TH and Chouvet G (1993) Tonic activation of NMDA receptors causes spontaneous burst discharge of rat midbrain dopamine neurons in vivo. Eur J Neurosci 5:137-144.
7. Fibiger HC and Phillips AG (1986) Reward, motivation, cognition: Psychobiology of mesotelencephalic dopamine systems, in Handbook of Physiology: Vol. 4. Intrinsic Regulatory Systems of the Brain. (F. E. Bloom and S. R. Geiger, eds) pp 647-675, American Physiology Society, Bethesda, MD.
8. French ED, Mura A and Wang T (1993) MK-801, phencyclidine (PCP), and PCP-like drugs increase burst firing in rat A10 dopamine neurons: Comparison to competitive NMDA antagonists. Synapse 13:108-116.
9. Grace AA and Bunney BS (1979) Paradoxal GABA excitation of nigral dopaminergic cells: Indirect mediation through reticulata inhibitory neurons. Europ J Pharmacol 59:211-218.
10. Imperato A, Puglisi-Allegra S, Casolini P and Angelucci L (1991) Changes in brain dopamine and acetylcholine release during and following stress are independent of the pituitary-adrenocortical axis. Brain Res 538:111-117.
11. Jiang ZG, Pessia M and North RA (1993) Dopamine and baclofen inhibit the hyperpolarization-activated cation current in rat ventral tegmental neurones. J Physiol (Lond) 462:753-764.
12. Johnson SW and North KA (1992) Two types of neurone in the rat ventral tegmental area and their synaptic inputs. J Physiol (Lond) 450:455-468.
13. Johnson SW, Seutin V and North RA (1992) Burst firing in dopamine neurons induced by N-methyl-D-aspartate: Role of electrogenic sodium pump. Science (Wash DC) 258:665-657.
14. Kalivas P (1993) Neurotransmitter regulation of dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area. Brain Res Rev 18:75-113.
15. Kalivas P, Duffy P and Barrow J (1989) Regulation of the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system by glutamic acid receptor subtypes. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 251:378-387.
16. Karreman M, Westerink BHC and Moghaddam B (1996) Excitatory amino acid receptors in the ventral tegmental area regulate dopamine release in the ventral striatum. J Neurochem 66:589-598.
17. Lacey MG, Calabresi P and North RA (1990) Muscarine depolarises rat substantia nigra zona compacta and ventral tegmental neurons in vitro through M1-like receptors. J Pharmacol Ther 253:395-400.
18. Le Moal M and Simon H (1991) Mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic network: Functional and regulatory roles. Physiol Rev 71:155-234.
19. Leviel V, Chéramy A, Nieoullon A and Glowinski J (1979) Symmetric bilateral changes in dopamine release from the caudate nuclei of the cat induced by unilateral nigral application of glycine and GABA related compounds. Brain Res 174:259-270.
20. Overton P and Clark D (1992) Iontophoretically administered drugs acting at the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor modulate burst firing in A9 dopamine neurons in the rat. Synapse 10:131-140.
21. Paxinos G and Watson C (1982) The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates. Academic Press, New York.
22. Sachs BD and Meisel RL (1988) The physiology of male sexual behavior, The Physiology of Reproduction, Knobil E and Neill J (eds) pp 1393-1485, Raven, New York.
23. Santiago M and Westerink BHC (1991) The regulation of dopamine release from nigrostriatal neurons in conscious rats: The role of somatodendritic autoreceptors. Eur J Pharmacol 204:79-85.
24. Santiago M and Westerink BHC (1992) The role of GABA receptors in the control of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons: A microdialysis study in awake rats. Europ J Pharmacol 219:175-181.
25. Seutin V, Johnson SW and North RA (1994) Effect of dopamine and baclofen on N-methyl-D-aspartate-induced burst firing in rat ventral tegmental neurons. Neuroxcience 58:201-206.
26. Seutin V, Verbanck P, Massotte L and Dresse A (1990) Evidence for the presence of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in the ventral tegmental area of the rat: An electrophysiological in vitro study. Brain Res 514:147-150.
27. A receptor-mediated inhibition of rat substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons by pars recticulata projection neurons. J Neurosci: 15:3092-3103
28. Wang T and French ED (1993) Electrophysiological evidence for the existence of NMDA and non-NMDA receptors on rat ventral tegmental neurons. Synapse 13:270-277.
29. Wang T, O'Connor WT, Ungerstedt U and French ED (1994) N-methyl-D-aspartic acid biphasically regulates the biochemical and electrophysiological response of A10 dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area: In vivo microdialysis and in vitro electrophysiological studies. Brain Res 666:255-262.
30. Westerink BHC, Kwint H-F and De Vries JB (1996) The pharmacology of mesolimbic dopamine neurons: A dual-probe microdialysis study in the ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens of the rat brain. J Neurosci 16:2605-2611.
31. Westerink BHC, Santiago M and De Vries JB (1992) The release of dopamine from nerve terminals and dendrites of nigrostriatal neurons induced by excitatory amino acids in the conscious rat. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch Pharmocol 345:523-529.
32. Zhang J, Chiodo LA and Freeman AS (1994) Influence of excitatory amino acid receptor subtypes on the electrophysiological activity of dopaminergic and nondopaminergic neurons in rat substantia nigra. J Pharmacol Exptl Therap 269:313-321.