Opioid modulation of ventral pallidal afferents to ventral tegmental area neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 6454-6459

  Hjelmstad, Gregory O ^a   Xia, Yanfang ^a   Margolis, Elyssa B ^a   Fields, Howard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; ENKEPHALIN [2 DEXTRO ALANINE 4 METHYLPHENYLALANINE 5 GLYCINE]; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; OPIATE; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; ENKEPHALIN, ALA(2)-MEPHE(4)-GLY(5)-; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; RHODOPSIN; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84875990681     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0178-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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