Dopamine “Autoreceptors”: Pharmacological characterization by microiontophoretic single cell recording studies

The depletion of brain serotonin levels

The depletion of brain serotonin levels by para-chlorophenylalanine administration significantly alters the activity of midbrain dopamine cells in rats: An extracellular single cell recording study

✍ Yoshio Minabe; Kenji Emori; Charles R. Ashby Jr. 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 886 KB

In this study, we examined the effect of 5-HT depletion produced by the acute administration of para-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA) on the number of spontaneously active dopamine (DA) cells in the ventral tegmental area (VTA or A10) and substantia nigra pars compacta (SNC or A9) in the rat. We also dete