The emergence of the volume transmission concept

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 136-147

  Zoli, Michele ^a   Torri, Carla ^a   Ferrari, Rosaria ^a   Jansson, Anders ^b   Zini, Isabella ^a   Fuxe, Kjell ^b   Agnati, Luigi F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Intercellular communication; Striatal lesions

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032079082     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(97)00048-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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