Afferent-specific AMPA receptor subunit composition and regulation of synaptic plasticity in midbrain dopamine neurons by abused drugs

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 7900-7909

  Good, Cameron H ^a   Lupica, Carl R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (2,4 DICHLOROPHENYL) 5 (4 IODOPHENYL) 4 METHYL N (1 PIPERIDYL) 1H PYRAZOLE 3 CARBOXAMIDE; AMPA RECEPTOR; COCAINE; DRONABINOL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG ABUSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; UPREGULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; STREET DRUGS; SYNAPSES; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 77953512336     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1507-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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