Glutamate synaptic inputs to ventral tegmental area neurons in the rat derive primarily from subcortical sources

Neuroscience

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1259-1274

  Omelchenko, N ^a   Sesack, S R ^a  

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

Author keywords

dopamine; GABA; nucleus accumbens; prefrontal cortex; VGlut1; VGlut2

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENDRITES; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STILBAMIDINES; SYNAPSES; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 34247874520     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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