Dopamine/tyrosine hydroxylase neurons of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus release GABA, communicate with dopaminergic and other arcuate neurons, and respond to dynorphin, met-enkephalin, and oxytocin

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 45, 2015, Pages 14966-14982

  Zhang, Xiaobing ^a   Van den Pol, Anthony N ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; Burst firing; Dopamine neuron; GABA; Neuropeptides; Optogenetics

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DYNORPHIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; METENKEPHALIN; OXYTOCIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; RAT; SECRETION (PROCESS); TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS OF HYPOTHALAMUS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; DYNORPHINS; ENKEPHALIN, METHIONINE; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OXYTOCIN; RATS; SWINE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84946905080     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0293-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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