The abused inhalant toluene differentially modulates excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in deep-layer neurons of the medial prefrontal cortex

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1531-1542

  Beckley, Jacob T ^a,b   Woodward, John J ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

abused inhalants; toluene; NMDA; GABA; endocannabinoids; CB1 receptors

Indexed keywords

2,3 DIHYDRO 5 METHYL 3 (MORPHOLINOMETHYL) 6 (1 NAPHTHOYL)PYRROLO[1,2,3 DE][1,4]BENZOXAZINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DANTROLENE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TETRODOTOXIN; TOLUENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; COGNITION; DRUG EFFECT; EXCITABILITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BENZOXAZINES; BIOPHYSICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MORPHOLINES; NAPHTHALENES; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLVENTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOLUENE;

EID: 79956007791     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.38     Document Type: Article

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