Anatomical Substrates for Glutamate-Dopamine Interactions: Evidence for Specificity of Connections and Extrasynaptic Actions

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1003, Issue , 2003, Pages 36-52

  Sesack, Susan R ^a,d   Carr, David B ^b   Omelchenko, Natalia ^a   Pinto, Aline ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Amygdala; Dopamine; GABA; Glutamate; Laterodorsal tegmentum; Nucleus accumbens; Pedunculopontine tegmentum; Prefrontal cortex; Striatum; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0347091942     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1300.066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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