Cocaine drives aversive conditioning via delayed activation of dopamine-responsive habenular and midbrain pathways

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 7501-7512

  Jhou, Thomas C ^a,c   Good, Cameron H ^b   Rowley, Courtney S ^c   Xu, Sheng ping ^a   Wang, Huikun ^b   Burnham, Nathan W ^c   Hoffman, Alexander F ^b   Lupica, Carl R ^b   Ikemoto, Satoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSION; CATHETERIZATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HABENULA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; HABENULA; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84876526512     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3634-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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