Repeated social defeat stress enhances glutamatergic synaptic plasticity in the VTA and cocaine place conditioning

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue 2016JULY, 2016, Pages

  Stelly, Claire E ^a   Pomrenze, Matthew B ^a   Cook, Jason B ^a   Morikawa, Hitoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; SOCIAL STRESS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84979599444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.15448     Document Type: Article

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