Ventral tegmental area glutamate neurons co-release GABA and promote positive reinforcement

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yoo, Ji Hoon ^a   Zell, Vivien ^a   Gutierrez Reed, Navarre ^b   Wu, Johnathan ^a   Ressler, Reed ^a   Shenasa, Mohammad Ali ^a   Johnson, Alexander B ^a   Fife, Kathryn H ^b   Faget, Lauren ^a   Hnasko, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GLUTAMIC ACID; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOASSAY; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; INHIBITION; NEUROLOGY; PALLADIUM; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; HABENULA; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT; VENTRAL PALLIDUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; OPTOGENETICS; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPTOGENETICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 85006325477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13697     Document Type: Article

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