Glutamatergic and nonglutamatergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area establish local synaptic contacts with dopaminergic and nondopaminergic neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 218-229

  Dobi, Alice ^a,c   Margolis, Elyssa B ^b   Wang, Hui Ling ^a   Harvey, Brandon K ^a   Morales, Marisela ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; LEUKOAGGLUTININ; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADENOVIRUS; ANATOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INJECTION; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 74849114283     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3884-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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