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Synaptic Plasticity at Inhibitory Synapses in the Ventral Tegmental Area Depends upon Stimulation Site

Robyn St. Laurent and Julie Kauer
eNeuro 16 October 2019, 6 (6) ENEURO.0137-19.2019; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0137-19.2019
Robyn St. Laurent
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0137-19.2019
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31619451
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History 
  • Received April 10, 2019
  • Revision received September 16, 2019
  • Accepted October 4, 2019
  • Published online October 16, 2019.
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Copyright © 2019 St. Laurent and Kauer This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Robyn St. Laurent and
  2. Julie Kauer
  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Julie Kauer at jkauer{at}stanford.edu.
  • R. St. Laurent’s present address: Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158.

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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: R.S.L. and J.K. designed research; R.S.L. performed research; R.S.L. analyzed data; R.S.L. and J.K. wrote the paper.

  • R. St. Laurent’s present address: Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse Grants 011289 (to J.K.), 045419 (to R.S.L.), and T32 MH20068 (to R.S.L.).

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  • HHS | NIH | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    011289; 045419

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