Regulatory Effects of D2 Receptors in the Ventral Tegmental Area on the Mesocorticolimbic Dopaminergic Pathway
- 6 June 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 74 (6) , 2576-2582
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1471-4159.2000.0742576.x
Abstract
To investigate the regulatory effects of somatodendritic D2 receptors on the terminal’s extracellular dopamine (DA) concentration, a D2 antagonist (eticlopride) was infused directly into t...Keywords
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