A role for conditioned ventral tegmental glutamate release in cocaine seeking

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 39, 2007, Pages 10546-10555

  You, Zhi Bing ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Zitzman, Dawnya ^a,b   Azari, Soraya ^a,c   Wise, Roy A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Extinction; GABA; Glutamate; Self administration; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SECTION; TRAINING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 34848846897     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2967-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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