Electrophysiological Characterization of GABAergic Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area
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Electrophysiological characterization of GABAergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area.
GABAergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) play a primary role in local inhibition of mesocorticolimbic dopamine (DA) neurons but are not physiologically or anatomically well characterized. We used in vivo extracellular and intracellular recordings in the rat VTA to identify a homogeneous population of neurons that were distinguished from DA neurons by their rapid-firing, nonbursting...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-19-08003.1998