5-HT2c Receptors localize to dopamine and gaba neurons in the rat mesoaccumbens pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Bubar, Marcy J ^a   Stutz, Sonja J ^a   Cunningham, Kathryn A ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; MALE; MESOACCUMBENS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STAINING;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2C; STAINING AND LABELING; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 79958145055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020508     Document Type: Article

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