Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus controls conditioned responses of midbrain dopamine neurons in behaving rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 4725-4732

  Pan, Wei Xing ^a   Hyland, Brian I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Classical conditioning; Conscious animal; Dopamine; Reward; Single unit recording

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; LEARNING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONSCIOUSNESS; DOPAMINE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 18644382215     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0277-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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