Sex-specific tonic 2-arachidonoylglycerol signaling at inhibitory inputs onto dopamine neurons of Lister hooded rats

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Melis, Miriam ^a   De Felice, Marta ^a   Lecca, Salvatore ^b   Fattore, Liana ^c   Pistis, Marco ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DU FER À MOULIN   (France)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

2 arachidonoylglycerol; Addiction; Cannabinoid; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Sex difference; Synaptic plasticity; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

2 ARACHIDONOYLGLYCEROL; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; ENDOCANNABINOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; ROSTROMEDIAL TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TEGMENTUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 84891125572     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00093     Document Type: Article

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