Excitatory and inhibitory responses of dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area to nicotine

Synapse

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 227-237

  Erhardt, Sophie ^a   Schwieler, Lilly ^a   Engberg, Gran ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Burst firing; Electrophysiology; GABAB receptors; Glutamate; Kynurenic acid; PNU 156561A

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4 OXO 4 (3',F' DICHLOROPHENYL)BUTANOIC ACID; 3 AMINOPROPYL(DIETHOXYMETHYL)PHOSPHINIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOSERINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENIC ACID; KYNURENINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; KYNURENINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE INHIBITOR; NICOTINE; NICOTINE TARTRATE; PNU 156561A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; INHIBITION KINETICS; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMOKING; TOBACCO; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BUTYRATES; DOPAMINE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UP-REGULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0037086845     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10044     Document Type: Article

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