The effects of nicotine exposure and PFC transection on the time-frequency distribution of VTA da neurons' firing activities

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 605-612

  Chen, Ting Y ^a   Zhang, Die ^a   Dragomir, Andrei ^a   Akay, Yasemin ^a   Akay, Metin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous wavelet transform; Dopamine neuron; Nicotine; Prefrontal cortex; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; DOPAMINE NEURONS; NICOTINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREAS;

BRAIN; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; ION BEAMS; RATS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

PYRIDINE;

DOPAMINE; GANGLION STIMULATING AGENT; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; GANGLIONIC STIMULANTS; MALE; NEURONS; NICOTINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 79959884782     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-011-0759-6     Document Type: Article

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