Periaqueductal gray afferents synapse onto dopamine and GABA neurons in the rat ventral tegmental area

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 981-991

  Omelchenko, Natalia ^a   Sesack, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Opiates; Periaqueductal gray; Reward; Tract tracing; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PEROXIDASE; TRACER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOSILVER LABELING; INNERVATION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSCOPY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DOPAMINE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOTIVATION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; NEUROPEPTIDES; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SECRETORY VESICLES; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 77950156161     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22265     Document Type: Article

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