Effect of amphetamine place conditioning on excitatory synaptic events in the basolateral amygdala ex vivo

Neuroscience

Volumn 206, Issue , 2012, Pages 7-16

  Hetzel, A ^a   Meredith, G E ^a   Rademacher, D J ^a,b   Rosenkranz, J A ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Excitatory synapses; Miniature EPSC; Osmolarity; Spontaneous EPSC

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PATCH CLAMP; PLACE CONDITIONING; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL;

AMPHETAMINE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LEARNING; MALE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84857655709     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.01.015     Document Type: Article

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