Oscillatory firing of dopamine neurons: Differences between cells in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area

Synapse

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 169-175

  Zhang, Die ^a   Yang, Shen ^a   Jin, Guo Zhang ^a   Bunney, Benjamin S ^b   Shi, Wei Xing ^a,b,c  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bursting; Firing pattern; Slow oscillation; Spectral analysis; Variability of firing

Indexed keywords

CHLORAL HYDRATE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TECHNIQUE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; MALE; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 38749150610     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20479     Document Type: Article

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