Metabotropic glutamate receptors and the generation of locomotor activity: Interactions with midbrain dopamine

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 577-589

  Vezina, Paul ^a   Kim, Jeong Hoon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Dopamine; Excitatory amino acids; Glutamate; Locomotion; Locomotor sensitization; Metabotropic and ionotropic glutamate receptors; Nucleus accumbens; Psychomotor stimulants; Rotation; Striatum; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT;

BASAL GANGLION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROTATION; SENSITIZATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE;

EID: 0033011808     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(98)00055-4     Document Type: Review

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