Ethanol Blocks Long-Term Potentiation of GABAergic Synapses in the Ventral Tegmental Area Involving ?-Opioid Receptors

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Yan-zhong Guan

Ethanol Blocks Long-Term Potentiation of GABAergic Synapses in the Ventral Tegmental Area Involving μ-Opioid Receptors

Neuropsychopharmacology 35, 1841 (August 2010). doi:10.1038/npp.2010.51

Authors: Yan-zhong Guan & Jiang-Hong Ye

Keywords: Addiction & Substance Abuse; Opioids; GABA; Plasticity; mesolimbic system; alcohol; long term potentiation; ventral tegmetnal area; IPSCs; opioid system

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