Acetaldehyde increases dopaminergic neuronal activity in the VTA

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 530-536

  Foddai, Marzia ^a   Dosia, Gabriella ^a   Spiga, Saturnino ^b   Diana, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acetaldehyde; Alcoholism; Dopamine neurons; Electrophysiology; Ethanol

Indexed keywords

4 METHYLPYRAZOLE; ACETALDEHYDE; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; DOPAMINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACETALDEHYDE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; MALE; NEURONS; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 1642409201     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300326     Document Type: Article

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