Glutamatergic signaling by midbrain dopaminergic neurons: Recent insights from optogenetic, molecular and behavioral studies

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 393-401

  Koos, Tibor ^a   Tecuapetla, Fatuel ^a   Tepper, James M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; GENE PRODUCT; GLUTAMIC ACID; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GLUTAMATE RELEASE; GLUTAMATERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; REWARD; SPINY PROJECTION NEURON; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 79960231692     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.05.010     Document Type: Review

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