Opiate state controls bi-directional reward signaling via GABAA receptors in the ventral tegmental area

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 160-169

  Laviolette, Steven R ^a   Gallegos, Roger A ^b   Henriksen, Steven J ^b   Van Der Kooy, Derek ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; DIAMORPHINE; OPIATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; CARBONIC ANHYDRASES; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DOPAMINE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GABA AGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HEROIN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MUSCIMOL; NARCOTICS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REWARD; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 1642580891     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1182     Document Type: Article

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