Activation of Ventral Tegmental Area Cells by the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis: A Novel Excitatory Amino Acid Input to Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 5173-5187

  Georges, François ^a   Aston Jones, Gary ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Dopamine neurons; Extracellular recording; NMDA receptors; Non NMDA receptors; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID RECEPTOR; KYNURENIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT PERIOD; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED RESPONSE; HISTOLOGY; KINETICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; KINETICS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEPTAL NUCLEI; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0037096325     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-12-05173.2002     Document Type: Article

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