Sensory effects of intravenous cocaine on dopamine and non-dopamine ventral tegmental area neurons

Brain Research

Volumn 1218, Issue , 2008, Pages 230-249

  Brown, P Leon ^a   Kiyatkin, Eugene A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine release and uptake; Drug taking behavior; Glutamate; Reinforcement; Somato sensory stimulus; Tail press; Visceral sensory nerve

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; ETICLOPRIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRODE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; TAIL FLICK TEST; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; IMIDAZOLES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SALICYLAMIDES; TAIL; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 46349101013     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.04.027     Document Type: Article

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