Metabotropic glutamate receptor 2/3‐dependent long‐term depression in the nucleus accumbens is blocked in morphine withdrawn mice
- 11 December 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 16 (11), 2231-2235
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02273.x
Abstract
The nucleus accumbens (NAc) plays a crucial role in addiction. We have recently shown that activation of presynaptic metabotropic glutamate 2/3 receptors (mGlu2/3) induces long-term depression (LTD) ...Keywords
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