Ventral tegmental area GABA neurons and opiate motivation

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 227, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 697-709

  Ting A Kee, Ryan ^a   Vargas Perez, Hector ^a   Mabey, Jennifer K ^b   Shin, Samuel I ^b   Steffensen, Scott C ^b   Van Der Kooy, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Furosemide; GABAA receptor excitation; Mice; Morphine; Muscimol; Rats; Tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ACETAZOLAMIDE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; FUROSEMIDE; MORPHINE; MUSCIMOL; OPIATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUROSEMIDE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICE; MORPHINE; MOTIVATION; MUSCIMOL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84878693754     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3002-3     Document Type: Article

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