Impact of prefrontal cortex in nicotine-induced excitation of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons in anesthetized rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 36, 2012, Pages 12366-12375

  Zhang, Die ^a   Gao, Ming ^a,b   Xu, Dan ^c   Shi, Wei Xing ^c   Gutkin, Boris S ^d   Steffensen, Scott C ^e   Lukas, Ronald J ^a   Wu, Jie ^a,b  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CHLORAL HYDRATE; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPIKE WAVE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; MALE; NICOTINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84865703843     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5411-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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