Modulation of Excitatory Transmission onto Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons of the Rat by Activation of Group III Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1003, Issue , 2003, Pages 479-480

  Valenti, Ornella ^a   Marino, Michael J ^a   Conn, P Jeffrey ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; mGluRs; Neuromodulatory control

Indexed keywords

L AP4; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 3; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 4; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 7; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR AGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG POTENCY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; PATCH CLAMP; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0347091891     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1300.058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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