Basal ganglia control of substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons

Journal of Neural Transmission, Supplementa

Volumn , Issue 73, 2009, Pages 71-90

  Lee, Christian R ^b   Tepper, James M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Dopamine neuron; Electrophysiology; Parkinson's disease; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN SLICE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EVOKED RESPONSE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; DOPAMINE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 70349743093     PISSN: 03036995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-92660-4_6     Document Type: Review

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