Presynaptic glycine receptors on GABAergic terminals facilitate discharge of dopaminergic neurons in ventral tegmental area

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 41, 2004, Pages 8961-8974

  Ye, Jiang Hong ^a   Wang, Fushun ^a   Krnjević, Kresimir ^b   Wang, Weizhen ^c   Xiong, Zhi Gang ^c   Zhang, Jingli ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium channels; IPSCs; Mesolimbic system; Strychnine; Synaptic transmission; Taurine; Whole cell patch clamp

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; CADMIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL N TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL P TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL Q TYPE; CALCIUM ION; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; STRYCHNINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FLUORESCENCE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CELL SEPARATION; DOPAMINE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE AGENTS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TAURINE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 5644288498     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2016-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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