Elimination of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter in the striatum reveals regulation of behaviour by cholinergic-glutamatergic co-transmission

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Guzman, Monica S ^a,b   de Jaeger, Xavier ^a,b,c   Raulic, Sanda ^a   Souza, Ivana A ^a,b,c   Li, Alex X ^a   Schmid, Susanne ^b   Menon, Ravi S ^a,b   Gainetdinov, Raul R ^d,e   Caron, Marc G ^e   Bartha, Robert ^a,b   Prado, Vania F ^a,b   Prado, Marco A M ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER; CATECHOLAMINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GLUTAMATERGIC TRANSMISSION; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MEDIUM SPINY NEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNAPTOSOME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CATECHOLAMINES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNAPTOSOMES; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 82455192840     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001194     Document Type: Article

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