Cocaine exposure reorganizes cell type- and input-specific connectivity in the nucleus accumbens

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1198-1207

  MacAskill, Andrew F ^a,b   Cassel, John M ^a   Carter, Adam G ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MEDIUM SPINY NEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPTOGENETICS; PHARMACOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; WHOLE CELL; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DRUG EFFECTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MUTANT MOUSE STRAIN; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; SENSORY NERVE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; DENDRITIC SPINES; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPTOGENETICS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REWARD;

EID: 84921664006     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3783     Document Type: Article

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