Quantitative unit classification of ventral tegmental area neurons in vivo
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Quantitative unit classification of ventral tegmental area neurons in vivo.
Neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) synthesize several major neurotransmitters, including dopamine (DA), GABA, and glutamate. To classify VTA single-unit neural activity from freely moving rats, we used hierarchical agglomerative clustering and probability distributions as quantitative methods. After many parameters were examined, a firing rate of 10 Hz emerged as a transition frequency...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurophysiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0022-3077,1522-1598
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00575.2011