Hierarchical Control of Dopamine Neuron-Firing Patterns by Nicotinic Receptors

Neuron

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 911-921

  Mameli Engvall, Monica ^a,b   Evrard, Alexis ^a   Pons, Stéphanie ^a   Maskos, Uwe ^a   Svensson, Torgny H ^b   Changeux, Jean Pierre ^a   Faure, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

MOLNEURO; SIGNALING; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INJECTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LENTIVIRINAE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; NICOTINE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 33744929396     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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