A subpopulation of neurochemically-identified ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons is excited by intravenous cocaine

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1965-1978

  Mejias Aponte, Carlos A ^a   Ye, Changquan ^a   Bonci, Antonello ^a,b   Kiyatkin, Eugene A ^a   Morales, Marisela ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; In vivo electrophysiology; Intravenous; Juxtacellular; Single unit; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FOOTSHOCK; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LONG EVANS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84922378991     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3422-13.2015     Document Type: Article

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