GABA Neurons of the VTA Drive Conditioned Place Aversion

Neuron

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1173-1183

  Tan, Kelly R ^a   Yvon, Cédric ^a   Turiault, Marc ^a   Mirzabekov, Julie J ^b   Doehner, Jana ^c   Labouèbe, Gwenaël ^a   Deisseroth, Karl ^b   Tye, Kay M ^b,d   Lüscher, Christian ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CONDITIONED PLACE AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOOTSHOCK; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APOMORPHINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HALOPERIDOL; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MORPHINE; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RHODOPSIN; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84858691626     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.02.015     Document Type: Article

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