Optical imaging of rat prefrontal neuronal activity evoked by stimulation of the ventral tegmental area

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 875-880

  Watanabe, Yumiko ^a   Kajiwara, Riichi ^a   Takashima, Ichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Optical imaging; Prefrontal cortex; Ventral tegmental area; Voltage sensitive dye

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DENERVATION; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXIDOPAMINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STAINING AND LABELING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 67549102207     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32832c5e98     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Simon H, Scatton B, Moal ML. Dopaminergic A10 neurones are involved in cognitive functions. Nature 1980; 286:150-151. (Pubitemid 10013856)
2. Van Eden CG, Hoomeman EM, Buijs RM, Matthijssen MA, Geffard M, Uylings HB. Immunocytochemical localization of dopamine in the prefrontal cortex of the rat at the light and electron microscopical level. Neuroscience 1987; 22:849-862.
3. Lavin A, Nogueira L, Lapish CC, Wightman RM, Phillips PE, Seamans JK. Mesocortical dopamine neurons operate in distinct temporal domains using multimodal signaling. J Neurosci 2005; 25:5013-5023. (Pubitemid 40712844)
4. Lapish CC, Kroener S, Durstewitz D, Lavin A, Seamans JK. The ability of the mesocortical dopamine system to operate in distinct temporal modes. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2007; 191:609-625. (Pubitemid 46355884)
5. Pirot S, Godbout R, Mantz J, Tassin JP, Glowinski J, Thierry AM. Inhibitory effects of ventral tegmental area stimulation on the activity of prefrontal cortical neurons: evidence for the involvement of both dopaminergic and GABAergic components. Neuroscience 1992; 49:857-865.
6. Takashima I, Ichikawa M, Iijima T. High-speed CCD imaging system for monitoring neural activity in vivo and in vitro, using a voltage-sensitive dye. J Neurosci Methods 1999; 91:147-159. (Pubitemid 29459098)
7. Takashima I, Kajiwara R, Iijima T. Voltage-sensitive dye versus intrinsic signal optical imaging: comparison of optically determined functional maps from rat barrel cortex. Neuroreport 2001; 12:2889-2894. (Pubitemid 32882002)
8. Takashima I, Kajiwara R, Iijima T. Voltage-sensitive dye imaging of intervibrissal fur-evoked activity in the rat somatosensory cortex. Neurosci Lett 2005; 381:258-263. (Pubitemid 40719168)
9. Sawaguchi T. Modular activation and suppression of neocortical activity in the monkey revealed by optical imaging. Neuroreport 1994; 6:185-189.
10. Seidemann E, Arieli A, Grinvald A, Slovin H. Dynamics of depolarization and hyperpolarization in the frontal cortex and saccade goal. Science 2002; 295:862-865. (Pubitemid 34118368)
11. Uylings HB, Groenewegen HJ, Kolb B. Do rats have a prefrontal cortex? Behav Brain Res 2003; 146:3-17. (Pubitemid 37476129)
12. Groenewegen HJ. Organization of the afferent connections of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus in the rat, related to the mediodorsal-prefrontal topography. Neuroscience 1988; 24:379-431. (Pubitemid 18062261)
13. Ray JP, Price JL. The organization of the thalamocortical connections of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus in the rat, related to the ventral forebrain-prefrontal cortex topography. J Comp Neurol 1992; 323:167-197.
14. Watanabe Y, Kajiwara R, Takashima I. Optical imaging of the rat prefrontal neuronal activity evoked by the stimulation of the ventral tegmental area. Neurosci Res Suppl 2008; 61:S212.
15. Descarries L, Lemay B, Doucet G, Berger B. Regional and laminar density of the dopamine innervation in adult rat cerebral cortex. Neuroscience 1987; 21:807-824. (Pubitemid 17106386)
16. Hoover WB, Vertes RP. Anatomical analysis of afferent projections to the medial prefrontal cortex in the rat. Brain Struct Fund 2007; 212:149-179. (Pubitemid 47394494)
17. Paxinos G, Watson C. The rat brain in stereotaxic coordinates. 4th ed. San Diego, CA, USA: Academic Press; 1998.
18. Yuan H, Sarre S, Ebinger G, Michotte Y. Histological, behavioural and neurochemical evaluation of medial forebrain bundle and striatal 6-OHDA lesions as rat models of Parkinson's disease. J Neurosci Methods 2005; 144:35-45. (Pubitemid 40546300)
19. Ferron A, Thierry AM, Le Douarin C, Glowinski J. Inhibitory influence of the mesocortical dopaminergic system on spontaneous activity or excitatory response induced from the thalamic mediodorsal nucleus in the rat medial prefrontal cortex. Brain Res 1984; 302:257-265. (Pubitemid 14077753)
20. Mercuri N, Calabresi P, Stanzione P, Bernardi G. Electrical stimulation of mesencephalic cell groups (A9-A10) produces monosynaptic excitatory potentials in rat frontal cortex. Brain Res 1985; 338:192-195. (Pubitemid 15012476)
21. Geisler S, Derst C, Veh RW, Zahm DS. Glutamatergic afferents of the ventral tegmental area in the rat. J Neurosci 2007; 27:5730-5743. (Pubitemid 350021081)
22. Schultz W. Predictive reward signal of dopamine neurons. J Neurophysiol 1998; 80:1-27. (Pubitemid 28326237)
23. Schultz W, Dayan P, Montague PR. A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science 1997; 275:1593-1599. (Pubitemid 27120526)
24. Seamans JK, Yang CR. The principal features and mechanisms of dopamine modulation in the prefrontal cortex. Prog Neurobiol 2004; 74:1-58. (Pubitemid 39286053)
25. Carr DB, Sesack SR. GABA-containing neurons in the rat ventral tegmental area project to the prefrontal cortex. Synapse 2000; 38:114-123.