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Prolonged Increase in the Sensitivity of the Posterior Ventral Tegmental Area to the Reinforcing Effects of Ethanol following Repeated Exposure to Cycles of Ethanol Access and Deprivation

Zachary A. Rodd, Richard L. Bell, Victoria K. McQueen, Michelle R. Davids, Cathleen C. Hsu, James M. Murphy, Ting‐Kai Li, Lawrence Lumeng, William J. McBride

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 2005 · 47 citations · 33 references

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Low doses of ethanol activate dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area

Gian Luigi Gessa, Francesco Muntoni, Maria Collu et al. · Brain Research · 1985 · 780 citations

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Oral alcohol self-administration stimulates dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens: genetic and motivational determinants.

Friedbert Weiss, Marge T. Lorang, Floyd E. Bloom et al. · Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 1993 · 749 citations

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Ethanol increases the firing rate of dopamine neurons of the rat ventral tegmental area in vitro

Mark S. Brodie, Sarah A. Shefner, Thomas V. Dunwiddie · Brain Research · 1990 · 498 citations

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Ethanol Self-Administration Restores Withdrawal-Associated Deficiencies in Accumbal Dopamine and 5-Hydroxytryptamine Release in Dependent Rats

Friedbert Weiss, Loren H. Parsons, Gery Schulteis et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 1996 · 462 citations · Full text

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Ethanol Directly Excites Dopaminergic Ventral Tegmental Area Reward Neurons

Mark S. Brodie, Christine Pesold, Sarah B. Appel · Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research · 1999 · 386 citations

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