Serotonin modulates glutamatergic transmission to neurons in the lateral habenula

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Xie, Guiqin ^a   Zuo, Wanhong ^a   Wu, Liangzhi ^a   Li, Wenting ^a   Wu, Wei ^a   Bekker, Alex ^a   Ye, Jiang Hong ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 2 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DRUG EFFECTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HABENULA; MALE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SECRETION (PROCESS); SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HABENULA; MALE; NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT3; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84962863075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23798     Document Type: Article

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