Creator
- Name
- Hillary Wadsworth
- Major
- Neuroscience
- Major Status
- Graduate
Project Details
- Poster Title
- Low-dose alcohol enhances dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens via alpha6-containing nicotinic receptors on GABAergic inputs from the ventral tegmental area
- Abstract
- Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area project to the nucleus accumbens. These projections underly the rewarding properties of ethanal and nicotine. Dopamine release is affected by α6-containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. We studied these nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and how they affect ethanol affects and neuronal plasticity.
- Mentors
- Jordan Yorgason
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