Dopamine receptor subtypes selectively modulate excitatory afferents from the hippocampus and amygdala to rat nucleus accumbens neurons

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1412-1421

  Charara, A ^a,b   Grace, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Afferents; Amygdala; Dopamine; Hippocampus; In vitro; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; 8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; ETICLOPRIDE; QUINPIROLE; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN FORNIX; CELL; CELL POPULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SENSORY NERVE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE;

EID: 0041383903     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300220     Document Type: Article

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