The ventral tegmental area revisited: Is there an electrophysiological marker for dopaminergic neurons?

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 577, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 907-924

  Margolis, Elyssa B ^a   Lock, Hagar ^b   Hjelmstad, Gregory O ^a,c   Fields, Howard L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION CHANNEL; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RELIABILITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VALIDATION PROCESS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; SPIKE WAVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 33845305449     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.117069     Document Type: Article

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