Selective Ablation of GABA Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area Increases Spontaneous Locomotor Activity

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1224-1233

  Shank, Erik J ^a   Seitz, Patricia K ^a   Bubar, Marcy J ^a   Stutz, Sonja J ^a   Cunningham, Kathryn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

dermorphin saporin; dopamine; gamma aminobutyric acid; mu opioid receptor; ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DERMORPHIN; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NEUROTOXIN; SAPORIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; INNERVATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; OPIOID PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 38149121526     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.6.1224     Document Type: Article

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