Evidence for the absence of impulse-regulating somatodendritic and synthesis-modulating nerve terminal autoreceptors on subpopulations of mesocortical dopamine neurons
Chiodo L, Bannon M, Grace A, Roth R, Bunney B. Evidence for the absence of impulse-regulating somatodendritic and synthesis-modulating nerve terminal autoreceptors on subpopulations of mesocortical dopamine neurons. Neuroscience 1984, 12: 1-16. PMID: 6462443, DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(84)90133-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSpikes/sDopamine neuronsPiriform cortexDopamine levelsCaudate nucleusCingulate cortexIntravenous administrationDopamine cellsFiring rateGlyoxylic acid-induced histofluorescenceCatecholamine histofluorescence techniquesMesocortical dopamine neuronsNerve terminal autoreceptorsNigrostriatal dopamine cellsDose-dependent inhibitory responseDopamine agonist apomorphineBasal discharge rateMidbrain dopaminergic neuronsMidbrain dopaminergic systemMean firing rateMidbrain dopamine systemMesocortical neuronsAgonist apomorphineMicroiontophoretic applicationAntidromic activation