Medial prefrontal cortical output neurons to the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and their responses to burst-patterned stimulation of the VTA: Neuroanatomical and in vivo electrophysiological analyses

Synapse

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 245-255

  Au Young, Simon M W ^a   Shen, Hao ^a   Yang, Charles R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidromic; Dopamine; Mesocortical; Rate code; Temporal code; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOLERA TOXIN; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; KINETICS; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAINING AND LABELING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0033573285     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(19991215)34:4<245::AID-SYN1>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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