Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors in the VTA and nucleus accumbens after cocaine exposure: When, how, and why?

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Wolf, Marina E ^a   Tseng, Kuei Y ^a  

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

Author keywords

Addiction; Calcium permeable AMPA receptor; Cocaine; Nucleus accumbens; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; AMPHETAMINE; CALCIUM; COCAINE; DOPAMINE AUTORECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; MORPHINE; NICOTINE;

ASSOCIATION; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ACTIVITY; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FACILITATION; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; REWARD; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 84863993387     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2012.00072     Document Type: Review

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