Identification of rat ventral tegmental area GABAergic neurons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Margolis, Elyssa B ^a,b   Toy, Brian ^a   Himmels, Patricia ^a   Morales, Marisela ^d   Fields, Howard L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; RATS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

RATTUS;

EID: 84864477801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042365     Document Type: Article

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