Targeting VGLUT2 in Mature Dopamine Neurons Decreases Mesoaccumbal Glutamatergic Transmission and Identifies a Role for Glutamate Co-release in Synaptic Plasticity by Increasing Baseline AMPA/NMDA Ratio

Ventral tegmental area: cellular heterogeneity, connectivity and behaviour

(2017) Marisela Morales et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Disrupting Glutamate Co-transmission Does Not Affect Acquisition of Conditioned Behavior Reinforced by Dopamine Neuron Activation

(2017) Dong V. Wang et al.   Cell Reports

The Emergence of a Circuit Model for Addiction

(2016) Christian Lüscher   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Glutamate neurons are intermixed with midbrain dopamine neurons in nonhuman primates and humans

(2016) David H. Root et al.   Scientific Reports

Midbrain Gene Screening Identifies a New Mesoaccumbal Glutamatergic Pathway and a Marker for Dopamine Cells Neuroprotected in Parkinson’s Disease

(2016) Thomas Viereckel et al.   Scientific Reports

The Brain on Drugs: From Reward to Addiction

(2015) Nora D. Volkow et al.   CELL

Glutamatergic and dopaminergic neurons in the mouse ventral tegmental area

(2015) Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Functional Connectome Analysis of Dopamine Neuron Glutamatergic Connections in Forebrain Regions

(2015) S. Mingote et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Loss of VGLUT3 Produces Circadian-Dependent Hyperdopaminergia and Ameliorates Motor Dysfunction and L-Dopa-Mediated Dyskinesias in a Model of Parkinson's Disease

(2015) C. B. Divito et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Dopaminergic and glutamatergic microdomains in a subset of rodent mesoaccumbens axons

(2015) Shiliang Zhang et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Sufficiency of Mesolimbic Dopamine Neuron Stimulation for the Progression to Addiction

(2015) Vincent Pascoli et al.   NEURON

Diversity of Transgenic Mouse Models for Selective Targeting of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

(2015) Stephan Lammel et al.   NEURON

The ins and outs of the striatum: Role in drug addiction

(2015) L.M. Yager et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Refining deep brain stimulation to emulate optogenetic treatment of synaptic pathology

(2015) M. Creed et al.   SCIENCE

Cre-driven optogenetics in the heterogeneous genetic panorama of the VTA

(2015) Stéfano Pupe et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Increased hippocampal excitability and impaired spatial memory function in mice lacking VGLUT2 selectively in neurons defined by tyrosine hydroxylase promoter activity

(2014) Karin Nordenankar et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Contrasting forms of cocaine-evoked plasticity control components of relapse

(2014) Vincent Pascoli et al.   NATURE

Glutamate neurons within the midbrain dopamine regions

(2014) M. Morales et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

An update on the connections of the ventral mesencephalic dopaminergic complex

(2014) L. Yetnikoff et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Haplotype-tag single nucleotide polymorphism analysis of the Vesicular Glutamate Transporter (VGLUT) genes in severely alcoholic women

(2014) Erika Comasco et al.   PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

Glutamate neurons in the substantia nigra compacta and retrorubral field

(2013) Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Heterogeneous composition of dopamine neurons of the rat A10 region: molecular evidence for diverse signaling properties

(2012) Xueping Li et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Glutamate Corelease Promotes Growth and Survival of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

(2012) G. M. Fortin et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Neurons: Electrophysiological Properties and Projections

(2012) T. S. Hnasko et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Dopaminergic axons in different divisions of the adult rat striatal complex do not express vesicular glutamate transporters

(2011) Jonathan Moss et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Mesocorticolimbic Glutamatergic Pathway

(2011) T. Yamaguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Enhanced Sucrose and Cocaine Self-Administration and Cue-Induced Drug Seeking after Loss of VGLUT2 in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons in Mice

(2011) J. Alsio et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Reversal of cocaine-evoked synaptic potentiation resets drug-induced adaptive behaviour

(2011) Vincent Pascoli et al.   NATURE

From glutamate co-release to vesicular synergy: vesicular glutamate transporters

(2011) Salah El Mestikawy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Drug-Evoked Synaptic Plasticity in Addiction: From Molecular Changes to Circuit Remodeling

(2011) Christian Lüscher et al.   NEURON

Dopaminergic Terminals in the Nucleus Accumbens But Not the Dorsal Striatum Corelease Glutamate

(2010) G. D. Stuber et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Glutamatergic Signaling by Mesolimbic Dopamine Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens

(2010) F. Tecuapetla et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Vesicular Glutamate Transport Promotes Dopamine Storage and Glutamate Corelease In Vivo

(2010) Thomas S. Hnasko et al.   NEURON

AMPA receptor plasticity in the nucleus accumbens after repeated exposure to cocaine

(2010) Marina E. Wolf et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The addicted synapse: mechanisms of synaptic and structural plasticity in nucleus accumbens

(2010) Scott J. Russo et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

The dual dopamine-glutamate phenotype of growing mesencephalic neurons regresses in mature rat brain

(2009) Noémie Bérubé-Carrière et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Cocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity: persistence in the VTA triggers adaptations in the NAc

(2009) Manuel Mameli et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Synaptic AMPA Receptor Plasticity and Behavior

(2009) Helmut W. Kessels et al.   NEURON

Dopamine neuron glutamate cotransmission: frequency-dependent modulation in the mesoventromedial projection

(2009) N. Chuhma et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

VGLUT2 in dopamine neurons is required for psychostimulant-induced behavioral activation

(2009) C. Birgner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Developmental and Target-Dependent Regulation of Vesicular Glutamate Transporter Expression by Dopamine Neurons

(2008) J. A. Mendez et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Formation of accumbens GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors mediates incubation of cocaine craving

(2008) Kelly L. Conrad et al.   NATURE

Glutamate Receptors on Dopamine Neurons Control the Persistence of Cocaine Seeking

(2008) David Engblom et al.   NEURON

Unique Properties of Mesoprefrontal Neurons within a Dual Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine System

(2008) Stephan Lammel et al.   NEURON

Stereological estimates of dopaminergic, GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area, substantia nigra and retrorubral field in the rat

(2008) R.G. Nair-Roberts et al.   NEUROSCIENCE