Chronic ethanol administration alters activity in ventral tegmental area neurons after cessation of withdrawal hyperexcitability

Drugs abused by humans preferentially increase synaptic dopamine concentrations in the mesolimbic system of freely moving rats.

1988 • 4,617 citations

Oral alcohol self-administration stimulates dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens: genetic and motivational determinants.

1993 • 741 citations

Ethanol increases the firing rate of dopamine neurons of the rat ventral tegmental area in vitro

1990 • 507 citations

Profound decrement of mesolimbic dopaminergic neuronal activity during ethanol withdrawal syndrome in rats: electrophysiological and biochemical evidence.

1993 • 308 citations

Statistics Using Ranks: A Unified Approach.

1987 • 289 citations

Ethanol self-infusion into the ventral tegmental area by alcohol-preferring rats

1994 • 270 citations

1986 UPDATE: The Feeding of Ethanol in Liquid Diets

1986 • 239 citations

Mesolimbic dopaminergic reduction outlasts ethanol withdrawal syndrome: Evidence of protracted abstinence

1996 • 131 citations

Ethanol, like psychostimulants and morphine, causes long-lasting hyperreactivity of dopamine and acetylcholine neurons of rat nucleus accumbens: possible role in behavioural sensitization

1997 • 129 citations

Effects of dihydropyridine calcium channel antagonists in ethanol withdrawal; doses required, stereospecificity and actions of Bay K 8644

1990 • 123 citations

Alcohol Withdrawal in Rats Is Associated with a Marked Fall in Extraneuronal Dopamine

1992 • 104 citations

Antagonism of NMDA receptors but not AMPA/kainate receptors blocks bursting in dopaminergic neurons induced by electrical stimulation of the prefrontal cortex

1996 • 96 citations

Acute withdrawal after repeated ethanol treatment reduces the number of spontaneously active dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area

1993 • 73 citations

Adaptive changes of dopamine-D2 receptors in rat brain following ethanol withdrawal: A quantitative autoradiographic investigation

1992 • 66 citations

Enhancement of amphetamine- and cocaine-induced locomotor activity after chronic ethanol administration.

1997 • 56 citations

Marked decrease of A10 dopamine neuronal firing during ethanol withdrawal syndrome in rats

1992 • 53 citations

Identification of distinct components, with different time courses, of the changes in response to convulsive stimuli during ethanol withdrawal.

1995 • 26 citations

Ethanol withdrawal does not induce a reduction in the number of spontaneously active dopaminergic neurons in the mesolimbic system

1995 • 26 citations

Recording of mouse ventral tegmental area dopamine-containing neurons

1987 • 15 citations