GABA Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area Responding to Peripheral Sensory Input

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Chang Liang ^a   Gao, Ming ^a   Jin, Guo Zhang ^a   Zhen, Xuechu ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; DIZOCILPINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AIR CONDITIONING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; POWER SPECTRUM; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VENTILATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84870894321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051507     Document Type: Article

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