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Paul Vezina to Ventral Tegmental Area

This is a "connection" page, showing publications Paul Vezina has written about Ventral Tegmental Area.
Connection Strength

3.512
  1. Operant responding for optogenetic excitation of LDTg inputs to the VTA requires D1 and D2 dopamine receptor activation in the NAcc. Behav Brain Res. 2017 08 30; 333:161-170.
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    Score: 0.598
  2. Intermittent nicotine exposure upregulates nAChRs in VTA dopamine neurons and sensitises locomotor responding to the drug. Eur J Neurosci. 2013 Mar; 37(6):1004-11.
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    Score: 0.440
  3. Appetitive sensitization by amphetamine does not reduce its ability to produce conditioned taste aversion to saccharin. Behav Brain Res. 2006 Dec 15; 175(2):305-14.
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    Score: 0.284
  4. Blockade of D2 dopamine receptors in the VTA induces a long-lasting enhancement of the locomotor activating effects of amphetamine. Behav Pharmacol. 2004 Sep; 15(5-6):387-95.
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    Score: 0.246
  5. Previous exposure to VTA amphetamine enhances cocaine self-administration under a progressive ratio schedule in an NMDA, AMPA/kainate, and metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent manner. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2003 Apr; 28(4):629-39.
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    Score: 0.222
  6. Previous exposure to VTA amphetamine enhances cocaine self-administration under a progressive ratio schedule in a D1 dopamine receptor dependent manner. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2002 Dec; 27(6):970-9.
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    Score: 0.218
  7. Repeated ventral tegmental area amphetamine administration alters dopamine D1 receptor signaling in the nucleus accumbens. Synapse. 2002 Sep 01; 45(3):159-70.
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    Score: 0.214
  8. Glutamate inputs from the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus to the ventral tegmental area are essential for the induction of cocaine sensitization in male mice. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2022 Oct; 239(10):3263-3276.
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    Score: 0.214
  9. Induction of locomotor sensitization by amphetamine requires the activation of NMDA receptors in the rat ventral tegmental area. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2000 Aug; 151(2-3):184-91.
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    Score: 0.185
  10. Metabotropic glutamate receptors are necessary for sensitization by amphetamine. Neuroreport. 1998 Feb 16; 9(3):403-6.
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    Score: 0.156
  11. D1 dopamine receptor activation is necessary for the induction of sensitization by amphetamine in the ventral tegmental area. J Neurosci. 1996 Apr 01; 16(7):2411-20.
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    Score: 0.137
  12. Drug-Paired Contextual Stimuli Increase Dendritic Spine Dynamics in Select Nucleus Accumbens Neurons. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016 07; 41(8):2178-87.
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    Score: 0.137
  13. Excitatory synaptic function and plasticity is persistently altered in ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons after prenatal ethanol exposure. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015 Mar; 40(4):893-905.
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    Score: 0.124
  14. Amphetamine administered to the ventral tegmental area sensitizes rats to the locomotor effects of nucleus accumbens amphetamine. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1994 Aug; 270(2):690-6.
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    Score: 0.122
  15. Amphetamine-induced changes in dendritic morphology in rat forebrain correspond to associative drug conditioning rather than nonassociative drug sensitization. Biol Psychiatry. 2009 May 15; 65(10):835-40.
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    Score: 0.084
  16. Sensitization of midbrain dopamine neuron reactivity promotes the pursuit of amphetamine. J Neurosci. 2002 Jun 01; 22(11):4654-62.
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    Score: 0.053
  17. Prenatal ethanol exposure increases risk of psychostimulant addiction. Behav Brain Res. 2019 01 01; 356:51-61.
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    Score: 0.040
  18. Nicotine-induced upregulation of nicotinic receptors: underlying mechanisms and relevance to nicotine addiction. Biochem Pharmacol. 2009 Oct 01; 78(7):756-65.
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    Score: 0.021
  19. Enhanced nicotinic receptor function and drug abuse vulnerability. J Neurosci. 2007 Aug 15; 27(33):8771-8.
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    Score: 0.019
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