Optogenetic excitation in the ventral tegmental area of glutamatergic or cholinergic inputs from the laterodorsal tegmental area drives reward

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 559-571

  Steidl, Stephan ^a   Wang, Huiling ^b   Ordonez, Marco ^a   Zhang, Shiliang ^b   Morales, Marisela ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

dopamine; GABA; pedunculopontine tegemental nucleus; reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE TEST; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; LATERODORSAL TEGMENTAL AREA; LIGHT PAIRED CHAMBER TEST; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REWARD; TEGMENTUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICE; OPTOGENETICS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 85006132011     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13436     Document Type: Article

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