Differential effects of cocaine on dopamine neuron firing in awake and anesthetized rats

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1559-1571

  Koulchitsky, Stanislav ^a   De Backer, Benjamin ^a   Quertemont, Etienne ^a   Charlier, Corinne ^a   Seutin, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cocaine; dopamine neurons; electrophysiology; telemetric recording

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; COCAINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TELEMETRY; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84861202850     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.339     Document Type: Article

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