NMDA/AMPA ratio impacts state transitions and entrainment to oscillations in a computational model of the nucleus accumbens medium spiny projection neuron

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 40, 2005, Pages 9080-9095

  Wolf, John A ^a   Moyer, Jason T ^b   Lazarewicz, Maciej T ^b   Contreras, Diego ^a   Benoit Marand, Marianne ^c   O'Donnell, Patricio ^c   Finkel, Leif H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Basal ganglia; Bistability; Computational model; Hysteresis; MSP; NMDA AMPA ratio; Oscillation; Schizophrenia; Theta; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NIMODIPINE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MEDIUM SPINY PROJECTION NERVE CELL; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIMULATION;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 27144432080     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2220-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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