Smoke extracts and nicotine, but not tobacco extracts, potentiate firing and burst activity of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons in mice

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2244-2257

  Marti, Fabio ^a   Arib, Ouafa ^b   Morel, Carole ^a   Dufresne, Virginie ^c   Maskos, Uwe ^c   Corringer, Pierre Jean ^c   De Beaurepaire, Renaud ^b   Faure, Philippe ^a  

^a Groupe Enzymologie Moléculaire et Fonctionnelle   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier Paul Guiraud   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

dopaminergic cell; in vivo; Nicotine; nicotinic receptor; tobacco addiction; VTA

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; TOBACCO; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; DRUG SYNERGISM; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NICOTINE; PLANT EXTRACTS; SMOKE; TOBACCO; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 80052754978     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.112     Document Type: Article

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