Spontaneous activity and properties of two types of principal neurons from the ventral tegmental area of rat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3282-3293

  Koyama, Susumu ^a,b   Kanemitsu, Yoshio ^a   Weight, Forrest F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALRETININ; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; NYSTATIN; PARVALBUMIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APAMIN; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 19344371439     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00776.2004     Document Type: Article

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