Cholinergic axons in the rat ventral tegmental area synapse preferentially onto mesoaccumbens dopamine neurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 494, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 863-875

  Omelchenko, Natalia ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Dopamine; GABA; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; NICOTINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DOPAMINE; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 30344470172     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20852     Document Type: Article

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