title: Ethanol, glutamate, and the ventral tegmental area--a commentary on: Ding, Engleman, Rodd, and McBride, "ethanol increases glutamate neurotransmission in the posterior ventral tegmental area of female wistar rats".
abstract: The recent study by Ding and colleagues (2012) utilized in vivo microdialysis to demonstrate that acute and repeated alcohol administration produces dose-dependent effects on extracellular levels of the glutamate in the posterior ventral tegmental area. These findings have important implications for interactions between glutamatergic and dopaminergic mediation of alcohol reinforcement in the ventral midbrain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. foster.olive@asu.edu
authors.forename: M Foster
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Olive
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005260:Female; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000502:physiology*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000187:drug effects*; D017557:Ventral Tegmental Area / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D002492:Central Nervous System Depressants; D000431:Ethanol; D018698:Glutamic Acid