The glutamatergic projection from the prefrontal cortex to the nucleus accumbens core is required for cocaine-induced decreases in ventral pallidal GABA

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 438, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-145

  Torregrossa, Mary M ^a   Tang, X C ^a   Kalivas, Peter W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dialysis; GABA; Glutamate; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Ventral pallidum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; BACLOFEN; COCAINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GLUTAMATERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROINJECTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GABA AGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 43849095158     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.016     Document Type: Article

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