Acute and chronic cocaine-induced potentiation of synaptic strength in the ventral tegmental area: Electrophysiological and behavioral correlates in individual rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 34, 2004, Pages 7482-7490

  Borgland, Stephanie L ^a   Malenka, Robert C ^b   Bonci, Antonello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA; Behavioral sensitization; Cocaine; Dopamine; NMDA; Synaptic plasticity; VTA

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; COCAINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COCAINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 4444273619     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1312-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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