Conditional knockout of NMDA receptors in dopamine neurons prevents nicotine-conditioned place preference

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Lei Phillip ^a,b   Li, Fei ^a,c   Shen, Xiaoming ^c   Tsien, Joe Z ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Yunnan Banna Primate Model Research Center   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

MUS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; NICOTINE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 77649111219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008616     Document Type: Article

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