Repeated cocaine administration increases voltage-sensitive calcium currents in response to membrane depolarization in medial prefrontal cortex pyramidal neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3674-3679

  Nasif, Fernando J ^a   Hu, Xiu Ti ^a,b   White, Francis J ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca2+ current; Ca2+ plateau potential; Cocaine; Medial prefrontal cortex; Patch clamp; Psychostimulant

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; COCAINE; NIFEDIPINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM CURRENT; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; MALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CESIUM; CHLORIDES; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; KYNURENIC ACID; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NIFEDIPINE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17044391431     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0010-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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