Cellular Actions of Opiates and Cocaine

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

1988 • 4,617 citations

Cocaine Receptors on Dopamine Transporters Are Related to Self-Administration of Cocaine

1987 • 2,189 citations

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Dependence

1988 • 2,094 citations

Opioids excite dopamine neurons by hyperpolarization of local interneurons

1992 • 1,585 citations

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1971 • 1,547 citations

Autoradiographic differentiation of mu, delta and kappa opioid receptors in the rat forebrain and midbrain

1988 • 980 citations

Morphology and electrophysiological properties of immunocytochemically identified rat dopamine neurons recorded in vitro

1989 • 734 citations

Two types of neurone in the rat ventral tegmental area and their synaptic inputs.

1992 • 682 citations

Dopamine acts on D2 receptors to increase potassium conductance in neurones of the rat substantia nigra zona compacta.

1987 • 611 citations

Opioid Peptides May Excite Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons by Inhibiting Adjacent Inhibitory Interneurons

1979 • 610 citations

Morphine-induced activation of A10 dopamine neurons in the rat

1983 • 485 citations

The role of reward pathways in the development of drug dependence

1987 • 439 citations

Two cell types in rat substantia nigra zona compacta distinguished by membrane properties and the actions of dopamine and opioids

1989 • 426 citations

Membrane properties and synaptic responses of rat striatal neurones in vitro.

1991 • 375 citations

Cocaine Plasma Concentration: Relation to Physiological and Subjective Effects in Humans

1978 • 335 citations

Electrophysiological effects of cocaine in the mesoaccumbens dopamine system: studies in the ventral tegmental area

1988 • 313 citations

Drug receptors and the inhibition of nerve cells

1989 • 308 citations

Enkephalin hyperpolarizes interneurones in the rat hippocampus.

1988 • 296 citations

Electrophysiological effects of cocaine in the mesoaccumbens dopamine system: repeated administration.

1989 • 273 citations

Electrophysiology of dopaminergic and non‐dopaminergic neurones of the guinea‐pig substantia nigra pars compacta in vitro.

1991 • 257 citations

Self-administration of methionine enkephalin into the nucleus accumbens

1984 • 238 citations

Neural Mechanisms of the Reinforcing Action of Cocaine

1984 • 220 citations

Blockade of nucleus accumbens opiate receptors attenuates intravenous heroin reward in the rat

1985 • 175 citations

Neurophysiology of Dopaminergic Systems: Current Status and Clinical Perspectives

1987 • 165 citations

Autoradiographic localization of μ-opioid and neurotensin receptors within the mesolimbic dopamine system

1989 • 143 citations

Hyperpolarizing and depolarizing actions of dopamine via D-1 and D-2 receptors on nucleus accumbens neurons

1986 • 143 citations

Electrophysiological interactions of enkephalins with neuronal circuitry in the rat hippocampus. II. Effects on interneuron excitability

1980 • 127 citations

Actions of cocaine on rat dopaminergic neurones in vitro

1990 • 126 citations

Studies on the pharmacology of neurones in the nucleus accumbens of the rat

1976 • 104 citations

The Neuropharmacological Basis of Reward

1991 • 103 citations

Opiate influences on nucleus accumbens neuronal electrophysiology: dopamine and non-dopamine mechanisms

1989 • 78 citations

5-HT-mediated synaptic potentials in the dorsal raphe nucleus: interactions with excitatory amino acid and GABA neurotransmission

1989 • 76 citations

Actions of cocaine on rat nucleus accumbens neurones in vitro

1990 • 74 citations

In Vivo and in Vitro Intracellular Recordings from Rat Midbrain Dopamine Neuronsa

1988 • 64 citations

Antagonist treatment in nucleus accumbers or periaqueductal grey affects heroin self-administration

1988 • 60 citations

5-Hydroxytryptamine mediates inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in rat dorsal raphe neurons

1985 • 52 citations

Two types of neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta studied in a slice preparation

1987 • 36 citations