Segregated cholinergic transmission modulates dopamine neurons integrated in distinct functional circuits

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1025-1033

  Dautan, Daniel ^a,b,c   Souza, Albert S ^a,h   Huerta Ocampo, Icnelia ^a,c   Valencia, Miguel ^c,d,e   Assous, Maxime ^c   Witten, Ilana B ^f   Deisseroth, Karl ^g   Tepper, James M ^c   Bolam, J Paul ^a   Gerdjikov, Todor V ^b   Mena Segovia, Juan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^e Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AXON; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; INNERVATION; LATERODORSAL TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; LOCOMOTION; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYSIOLOGY; TEGMENTUM;

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DOPAMINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84976312052     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4335     Document Type: Article

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