Properties and plasticity of excitatory synapses on dopaminergic and GABAergic cells in the ventral tegmental area

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3723-3730

  Bonci, Antonello ^a   Malenka, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Dopamine; Long term potentiation; Midbrain; Synaptic plasticity; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0033562876     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-10-03723.1999     Document Type: Article

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