Ethanol Suppression of Ventral Tegmental Area GABA Neuron Electrical Transmission Involves N-Methyl-d-aspartate Receptors

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

Gian Luigi Gessa, Francesco Muntoni, Maria Collu et al. · Brain Research · 1985 · 777 citations

Psychiatry, Neurophysiology, Addiction +14

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 · 748 citations

Proximally targeted GABAergic synapses and gap junctions synchronize cortical interneurons

Gábor Tamás, Eberhard H. Buhl, Andrea Lörincz et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2000 · 655 citations

Synaptic Plasticity, Brain Circuitry, Neurodynamics +9

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 · 496 citations

Behavioral Neuroscience, Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology +11

Cell-Specific Expression of Connexins and Evidence of Restricted Gap Junctional Coupling between Glial Cells and between Neurons

John E. Rash, Thomas Yasumura, F. Edward Dudek et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2001 · 427 citations · Full text

Neurotransmission, Cell Junctions, Cellular Neurobiology +18