Different stressors produce excitation or inhibition of mesolimbic dopamine neuron activity: Response alteration by stress pre-exposure

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1312-1321

  Valenti, Ornella ^a,b   Gill, Kathryn M ^a   Grace, Anthony A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amphetamine cross sensitization; DA neuron population activity; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CHRONIC STRESS; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMPHETAMINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE AGENTS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84859958848     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08038.x     Document Type: Article

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