Glutamate neurons within the midbrain dopamine regions

Neuroscience

Volumn 282, Issue , 2014, Pages 60-68

  Morales, M ^a   Root, D H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Dopamine; Retrorubral field; Substantia nigra; Ventral tegmental area; VGluT2

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER 2; GLUTAMIC ACID; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 3; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER;

ADDICTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMATERGIC NERVE CELL; HABENULA; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENCEPHALON; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETRORUBRAL FIELD; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA; VENTRAL PALLIDUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; TEGMENTUM; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GLUTAMATERGIC NEURON; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEURONS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84906093616     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.05.032     Document Type: Review

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