Tonic opioid inhibition of the subiculo-accumbens pathway

Synapse

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-85

  Hakan, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Electrophysiology; Evoked response; Medium spiny neurons; Micro iontophoresis; Naloxone; Opiates; Subiculum

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NALOXONE; OPIATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBICULUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; FORNIX (BRAIN); MALE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0035006308     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.1062     Document Type: Article

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