TC-2559 excites dopaminergic neurones in the ventral tegmental area by stimulating alpha4beta2-like nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in anaesthetised rats.

Wang, Yun

TC-2559 excites dopaminergic neurones in the ventral tegmental area by stimulating alpha4beta2-like nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in anaesthetised rats. [electronic resource] - British journal of pharmacology Feb 2006 - 379-90 p. digital

Publication Type: Journal Article

0007-1188

10.1038/sj.bjp.0706621 doi


Action Potentials--drug effects
Animals
Apomorphine--pharmacology
Dopamine--physiology
Dopamine Agonists--pharmacology
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Electrophysiology
Ligands
Male
Neurons--drug effects
Nicotine--pharmacology
Nicotinic Agonists--pharmacology
Pyridines--pharmacology
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Receptors, Cholinergic--drug effects
Receptors, Nicotinic--physiology
Ventral Tegmental Area--drug effects