Varenicline and nicotine enhance GABAergic synaptic transmission in rat CA1 hippocampal and medial septum/diagonal band neurons

Life Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 6-7, 2013, Pages 337-344

  Dubois, Dustin W ^a   Damborsky, Joanne C ^a   Fincher, Annette S ^a   Frye, Gerald D ^a   Winzer Serhan, Ursula H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Basal forebrain; Cognitive function; Dependence; GABA release; Hippocampus; mIPSC

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NICOTINE; VARENICLINE;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL SEPTUM; MEMORY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; BENZAZEPINES; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; FEMALE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; QUINOXALINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

RATTUS;

EID: 84874115951     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: 18790631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2012.12.013     Document Type: Article

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