Ethanol directly excites dopaminergic ventral tegmental area reward neurons

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1848-1852

  Brodie, Mark S ^a   Pesold, Christine ^b   Appel, Sarah B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acutely Dissociated Neurons; Alcohol; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0032698271     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1999.tb04082.x     Document Type: Article

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