Impulse activity of midbrain dopamine neurons modulates drug-seeking behavior

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 84-98

  Marinelli, Michela ^a   Cooper, Donald C ^a   Baker, Lorinda K ^a   White, Francis J ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Relapse; Self administration; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; QUINPIROLE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0038502079     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-003-1491-1     Document Type: Article

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