Field potential recording in the ventral tegmental area: Pharmacological and toxicological evaluations of postsynaptic dopaminergic neuron activity

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 426-433

  Zheng, Yingjun ^a   Sudou, Kousuke ^a   Nawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Namba, Hisaaki ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

6 Hydroxydopamine; Excitatory transmission; Field potential; VTA

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BICUCULLINE; OXIDOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DOPAMINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OXIDOPAMINE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHOLYTICS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 33744984134     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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