Increased burst-firing of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons in d-amino acid oxidase knockout mice in vivo

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2999-3009

  Schweimer, Judith V ^a,b   Coullon, Gaelle S L ^a   Betts, Jill F ^b   Burnet, Philip W J ^a   Engle, Sandra J ^c   Brandon, Nicholas J ^c,d   Harrison, Paul J ^b   Sharp, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

d serine; Electrophysiology; Glycine binding site; Juxtacellular labelling; NMDA receptor; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

DEXTRO AMINO ACID OXIDASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; D-AMINO-ACID OXIDASE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84928693848     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12667     Document Type: Article

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