Do non-dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area play a role in the responses elicited in A10 dopaminergic neurons by electrical stimulation of the prefrontal cortex?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 466-476

  Tong, Z Y ^a   Overton, P G ^a   Martinez Cue C ^a,b   Clark, D ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

A10 cell group; Cortical efferents; Extracellular recording; Non dopaminergic neurons; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0031984144     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050303     Document Type: Article

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