Exposure to cocaine dynamically regulates the intrinsic membrane excitability of nucleus accumbens neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3689-3699

  Mu, Ping ^a   Moyer, Jason T ^b,c   Ishikawa, Masago ^a   Zhang, Yonghong ^a   Panksepp, Jaak ^a   Sorg, Barbara A ^a   Schlüter, Oliver M ^d   Dong, Yan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c FHC Inc   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXCITABILITY; EXPOSURE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; COCAINE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77949412818     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4063-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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