Cocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity of excitatory transmission in the ventral tegmental area

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lüscher, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84878978808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a012013     Document Type: Article

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