Endogenous opioid-induced neuroplasticity of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area influences natural and opiate reward

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 8825-8836

  Pitchers, Kyle K ^a,b   Coppens, Caroline M ^a   Beloate, Lauren N ^c   Fuller, Jonathan ^a   Van, Sandy ^a   Frohmader, Karla S ^a   Laviolette, Steven R ^a   Lehman, Michael N ^a,c   Coolen, Lique M ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Memory; Mesolimbic; Morphine; Reward; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ENDORPHIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EJACULATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATENT PERIOD; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MATING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

DOPAMINE; MEMORY; MESOLIMBIC; MORPHINE; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); COPULATION; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; MALE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84903180316     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0133-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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