Cocaine Increases Dopaminergic Neuron and Motor Activity via Midbrain α1 Adrenergic Signaling

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2015, Pages 1151-1162

  Goertz, Richard Brandon ^a   Wanat, Matthew J ^a,b   Gomez, Jorge A ^a   Brown, Zeliene J ^a   Phillips, Paul E M ^b   Paladini, Carlos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (N ETHYL N PHENYLAMINO) 1,2 DIMETHYL 6 (METHYLAMINO)PYRIMIDINIUM CHLORIDE; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; APAMIN; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR; HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS SHELL; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ALPHA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; MICROELECTRODE; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION-ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CHANNELS; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARS COMPACTA; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84925496719     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.296     Document Type: Article

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