Glutamatergic afferents of the ventral tegmental area in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 5730-5743

  Geisler, Stefanie ^a,c   Derst, Christian ^b   Veh, Rüdiger W ^b   Zahm, Daniel S ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Connections; Excitatory; Hypothalamus; Reward; VGLUT; VTA

Indexed keywords

VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN STEM; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 34250640627     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0012-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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