Designer receptors show role for ventral pallidum input to ventral tegmental area in cocaine seeking

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 577-585

  Mahler, Stephen V ^a   Vazey, Elena M ^a   Beckley, Jacob T ^a   Keistler, Colby R ^a   Mcglinchey, Ellen M ^a   Kaufling, Jennifer ^a   Wilson, Steven P ^b   Deisseroth, Karl ^c   Woodward, John J ^a   Aston Jones, Gary ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOUBLE DISSOCIATION; DREADD GENE; GENE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT MODEL; RELAPSE; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; RECURRENCE; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84897454748     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3664     Document Type: Article

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