Acetylcholine release in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system during cocaine seeking: Conditioned and unconditioned contributions to reward and motivation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 9021-9029

  You, Zhi Bing ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Zitzman, Dawnya ^a   Wise, Roy A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Acetylcholine receptor; ACh; Cocaine, dopamine; Rat; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; MECAMYLAMINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NEOSTIGMINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MECAMYLAMINE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 54049086270     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0694-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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