Cholinergic modulation of nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons
- 18 December 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 16 (12), 2279-2290
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02289.x
Abstract
The rat nucleus accumbens contains acetylcholine‐releasing interneurons, presumed to play a regulatory role in the electrical activity of medium spiny output neurons. In order to examine this issue i...Keywords
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