Region-specific changes in the subcellular distribution of AMPA receptor GluR1 subunit in the rat ventral tegmental area after acute or chronic morphine administration

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 9670-9681

  Lane, Diane A ^a   Lessard, Andree A ^a   Chan, June ^a   Colago, Eric E O ^a   Zhou, Yan ^b   Schlussman, Stefan D ^b   Kreek, Mary Jeanne ^b   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Multivesicular bodies; Reward; Synaptic plasticity; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; MORPHINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; 2 HYDROXY 4,4' DIAMIDINOSTILBENE, METHANESULFONATE SALT; 2-HYDROXY-4,4'-DIAMIDINOSTILBENE, METHANESULFONATE SALT; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 1; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; STILBAMIDINE;

ACUTE DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; CELL FRACTIONATION; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MORPHINE; NEURONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; STILBAMIDINES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 55749095022     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2151-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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