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ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2021

Ventral tegmental area GABA, glutamate, and glutamate-GABA neurons are heterogeneous in their electrophysiological and pharmacological properties.

Jorge Miranda-Barrientos, Ian Chambers, Smriti Mongia, Bing Liu, Hui-Ling Wang, Gabriel E Mateo-Semidey, Elyssa B Margolis, Shiliang Zhang, Marisela Morales

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Article in The European journal of neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Salience Signaling and Stimulus Scaling of Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Neuron Subtypes.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  18. Ventral tegmental area glutamate neurons establish a mu-opioid receptor gated circuit to mesolimbic dopamine neurons and regulate opioid-seeking behavior.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023
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  19. Neuronal implementation of the temporal difference learning algorithm in the midbrain dopaminergic system.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jorge Miranda-BarrientosIntegrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1161-5695
Ian ChambersIntegrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Smriti MongiaIntegrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Bing LiuIntegrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Hui-Ling WangIntegrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Gabriel E Mateo-SemideyIntegrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Elyssa B MargolisUCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Shiliang ZhangConfocal and Electron Microscopy Core, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Marisela MoralesIntegrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA.
National Institute on Drug Abuse · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Neuronal connectivity within the mesolimbic systemZIADA000511 · NIDA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE · PI MORALES, MARISELA · 2009 to 2025
$35.0M
The role of the VTA-lateral habenula circuit in opioid mediated behaviorsR01DA042025 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MARGOLIS, ELYSSA · 2017 to 2021
$1.8M
Intramural research program NIHNIDA NIH HHS R01 DA042025NIH HHS R01DA042025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ventral tegmental area (VTA) contains dopamine neurons intermixed with GABA-releasing (expressing vesicular GABA transporter, VGaT), glutamate-releasing (expressing vesicular glutamate transporter 2, VGluT2), and glutamate-GABA co-releasing (co-expressing VGluT2 and VGaT) neurons. By delivering INTRSECT viral vectors into the VTA of double vglut2-Cre/vgat-Flp transgenic mice, we targeted specific VTA cell populations for ex vivo recordings. We found that VGluT2

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INTERSECTMORmouse VTAVGaTVGluT2VGluT2-VGaT

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PMID33619763
PMCPMC8380271
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