 Ventral Tegmental Area
"Ventral Tegmental Area" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A region in the mesencephalon which is dorsomedial to the substantia nigra and ventral to the red nucleus. The mesocortical and mesolimbic dopaminergic systems originate here, including an important projection to the nucleus accumbens. Overactivity of the cells in this area has been suspected to contribute to the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
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D017557
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.132.659.822.820 A08.186.211.653.822.820
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| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ventral Tegmental Area" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Mu L, Liu X, Yu H, Vickstrom CR, Friedman V, Kelly TJ, Hu Y, Su W, Liu S, Mantsch JR, Liu QS. cAMP-mediated upregulation of HCN channels in VTA dopamine neurons promotes cocaine reinforcement. Mol Psychiatry. 2023 Sep; 28(9):3930-3942.
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Mu L, Liu X, Yu H, Hu M, Friedman V, Kelly TJ, Zhao L, Liu QS. Ibudilast attenuates cocaine self-administration and prime- and cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking in rats. Neuropharmacology. 2021 12 15; 201:108830.
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Aghaie CI, Hausknecht KA, Wang R, Dezfuli PH, Haj-Dahmane S, Kane CJM, Sigurdson WJ, Shen RY. Prenatal Ethanol Exposure and Postnatal Environmental Intervention Alter Dopaminergic Neuron and Microglia Morphology in the Ventral Tegmental Area During Adulthood. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2020 02; 44(2):435-444.
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Kumar P, Goer F, Murray L, Dillon DG, Beltzer ML, Cohen AL, Brooks NH, Pizzagalli DA. Impaired reward prediction error encoding and striatal-midbrain connectivity in depression. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2018 06; 43(7):1581-1588.
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Northcutt AL, Hutchinson MR, Wang X, Baratta MV, Hiranita T, Cochran TA, Pomrenze MB, Galer EL, Kopajtic TA, Li CM, Amat J, Larson G, Cooper DC, Huang Y, O'Neill CE, Yin H, Zahniser NR, Katz JL, Rice KC, Maier SF, Bachtell RK, Watkins LR. DAT isn't all that: cocaine reward and reinforcement require Toll-like receptor 4 signaling. Mol Psychiatry. 2015 Dec; 20(12):1525-37.
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