The abused inhalant toluene increases dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens by directly stimulating ventral tegmental area neurons

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1558-1569

  Riegel, Arthur C ^a,b   Zapata, Agustin ^c   Shippenberg, Toni S ^c   French, Edward D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine (DA); Electrophysiology; Inhalant abuse; Microdialysis; Nucleus accumbens (ACB); Ventral tegmental area (VTA)

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; TOLUENE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICRODIALYSIS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SOLVENTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOLUENE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 34250360729     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301273     Document Type: Article

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