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- Opioids excite dopamine neurons by hyperpolarization of local interneurons (1992) (1567)
- Two types of neurone in the rat ventral tegmental area and their synaptic inputs. (1992) (706)
- Dopamine acts on D2 receptors to increase potassium conductance in neurones of the rat substantia nigra zona compacta. (1987) (610)
- Mu and delta receptors belong to a family of receptors that are coupled to potassium channels. (1987) (602)
- Neurobiology of opiate abuse. (1992) (549)
- Calcium-activated potassium channels expressed from cloned complementary DNAs (1992) (497)
- Burst firing in dopamine neurons induced by N-methyl-D-aspartate: role of electrogenic sodium pump. (1992) (446)
- Intracellular recording from the myenteric plexus of the guinea‐pig ileum (1973) (434)
- Two cell types in rat substantia nigra zona compacta distinguished by membrane properties and the actions of dopamine and opioids (1989) (427)
- Electrophysiology of opioids. (1983) (388)
- On the potassium conductance increase activated by GABAB and dopamine D2 receptors in rat substantia nigra neurones. (1988) (345)
- Membrane properties of rat locus coeruleus neurones (1984) (332)
- Drug receptors and the inhibition of nerve cells (1989) (309)
- Membrane properties and synaptic responses of rat striatal neurones in vitro. (1991) (308)
- Nicotinic excitation of rat ventral tegmental neurones in vitro studied by intracellular recording (1989) (304)
- On the potassium conductance increased by opioids in rat locus coeruleus neurones. (1985) (269)
- Cellular mechanisms of opioid tolerance: studies in single brain neurons. (1987) (269)
- The actions of noradrenaline on neurones of the rat substantia gelatinosa in vitro. (1984) (256)
- Opioid receptor types and membrane ion channels (1986) (255)
- Enkephalin opens potassium channels on mammalian central neurones (1982) (254)
- 5-hydroxytryptamine1B receptors block the GABAB synaptic potential in rat dopamine neurons (1992) (252)
- Characterization of α2-adrenoceptors which increase potassium conductance in rat locus coeruleus neurones (1985) (251)
- Heteropolymeric potassium channels expressed in xenopus oocytes from cloned subunits (1990) (242)
- Substantia gelatinosa neurones hyperpolarized in vitro by enkephalin (1983) (229)
- Does substance P mediate slow synaptic excitation within the myenteric plexus? (1978) (209)
- Noradrenaline‐mediated synaptic inhibition in rat locus coeruleus neurones. (1983) (208)
- 5-hydroxytryptamine is a fast excitatory transmitter at 5-HT3 receptors in rat amygdala (1992) (200)
- Acetylcholine hyperpolarizes central neurones by acting on an M2 muscarinic receptor (1986) (195)
- Synaptic inputs to GABAA and GABAB receptors originate from discrete afferent neurons (1992) (195)
- Functional differences among alternatively spliced variants of Slowpoke, a Drosophila calcium-activated potassium channel. (1994) (194)
- Electrical coupling synchronizes subthreshold activity in locus coeruleus neurons in vitro from neonatal rats (1989) (193)
- Actions of 5-hydroxytryptamine on neurons of the rat cingulate cortex. (1993) (187)
- Distinct muscarinic receptors inhibit release of gamma-aminobutyric acid and excitatory amino acids in mammalian brain. (1991) (183)
- Expression of a cloned rat brain potassium channel in Xenopus oocytes. (1989) (182)
- Actions of acetylcholine and nicotine on rat locus coeruleus neurons in vitro (1986) (172)
- Inward rectification of resting and opiate-activated potassium currents in rat locus coeruleus neurons (1988) (171)
- Pre- and postsynaptic inhibition by opioids in rat striatum (1992) (168)
- Opiate-receptor interactions on single locus coeruleus neurones. (1984) (167)
- Muscarine depolarizes rat substantia nigra zona compacta and ventral tegmental neurons in vitro through M1-like receptors. (1990) (164)
- Inhibition of calcium currents by noradrenaline, somatostatin and opioids in guinea‐pig submucosal neurones. (1990) (159)
- On the mechanism and site of action of enkephalin on single myenteric neurons (1979) (156)
- Mu and kappa opioids inhibit transmitter release by different mechanisms. (1985) (150)
- Acetylcholine acts on m2‐muscarinic receptors to excite rat locus coeruleus neurones (1985) (149)
- Cloning, heterologous expression and developmental regulation of a Drosophila receptor for tachykinin‐like peptides. (1991) (149)
- Somatostatin increases an inwardly rectifying potassium conductance in guinea‐pig submucous plexus neurones. (1987) (148)
- Actions of 5-hydroxytryptamine on ventral tegmental area neurons of the rat in vitro (1994) (145)
- Interaction between tetraethylammonium and amino acid residues in the pore of cloned voltage-dependent potassium channels. (1991) (142)
- Tetraethylammonium block of Slowpoke calcium-activated potassium channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes: Evidence for tetrameric channel formation (1994) (139)
- Electrophysiology of the enteric nervous system (1982) (139)
- Multiple subunits of a voltage-dependent potassium channel contribute to the binding site for tetraethylammonium (1992) (139)
- 5‐Hydroxytryptamine acts at 5‐HT2 receptors to decrease potassium conductance in rat nucleus accumbens neurones. (1989) (138)
- Substance P opens cation channels and closes potassium channels in rat locus coeruleus neurons (1992) (136)
- Single amino acid substitution affects desensitization of the 5-hydroxytryptamine type 3 receptor expressed in Xenopus oocytes. (1993) (132)
- Actions of cocaine on rat dopaminergic neurones in vitro (1990) (131)
- Minireview opiates, opioid peptides and single neurones (1979) (128)
- Slow synaptic potentials in neurones of the myenteric plexus. (1980) (128)
- THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF NARCOTIC ANALGESICS IN THE GUINEA‐PIG ILEUM (1977) (124)
- Agonists at μ‐opioid, M2 ‐muscarinic and GABAB ‐receptors increase the same potassium conductance in rat lateral parabrachial neurones (1988) (124)
- Alpha1‐adrenergic Effects on Dopamine Neurons Recorded Intracellularly in the Rat Midbrain Slice (1995) (117)
- Effects of cisapride on cholinergic neurotransmission and propulsive motility in the guinea pig ileum. (1989) (116)
- The calcium‐dependent slow after‐hyperpolarization in myenteric plexus neurones with tetrodotoxin‐resistant action potentials (1973) (115)
- Muscarinic agonists inactivate potassium conductance of guinea‐pig myenteric neurones. (1982) (114)
- Cloning, functional expression, and developmental regulation of a neuropeptide Y receptor from Drosophila melanogaster. (1992) (112)
- Inward rectification in rat nucleus accumbens neurons. (1989) (111)
- Depression of calcium‐dependent potassium conductance of guinea‐pig myenteric neurones by muscarinic agonists. (1983) (110)
- Muscarinic presynaptic inhibition of synaptic transmission in myenteric plexus of guinea‐pig ileum. (1982) (109)
- Excitation of rat locus coeruleus neurons by adenosine 5'-triphosphate: ionic mechanism and receptor characterization (1993) (106)
- Apamin increases NMDA-induced burst-firing of rat mesencephalic dopamine neurons (1993) (105)
- Electrophysiological evidence for presynaptic inhibition of acetylcholine release by 5-hydroxytryptamine in the enteric nervous system (1980) (104)
- Multiple actions of 5‐hydroxytryptamine on myenteric neurones of the guinea‐pig ileum. (1980) (103)
- Actions of γ‐aminobutyric acid on neurones of guinea‐pig myenteric plexus (1984) (103)
- Single potassium channels opened by opioids in rat locus ceruleus neurons. (1989) (102)
- Muscarinic synaptic potentials in guinea‐pig myenteric plexus neurones. (1982) (101)
- Opiate activation of potassium conductance inhibits calcium action potentials in rat locus coeruleus neurones (1983) (99)
- Evidence that substance P is a neurotransmitter in the myenteric plexus (1980) (96)
- Both mu and delta opiate receptors exist on the same neuron. (1981) (94)
- Excitatory synaptic potentials due to activation of neurons with short projections in the myenteric plexus (1984) (94)
- Muscarine increases cation conductance and decreases potassium conductance in rat locus coeruleus neurones. (1992) (93)
- Baclofen and adenosine inhibit synaptic potentials mediated by gamma-aminobutyric acid and glutamate release in rat nucleus accumbens. (1991) (93)
- Persistent calcium‐sensitive potassium current and the resting properties of guinea‐pig myenteric neurones. (1987) (92)
- CLONIDINE ACTIVATES MEMBRANE POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE IN MYENTERIC NEURONES (1981) (90)
- Muscarinic IPSPs in rat striatal cholinergic interneurones (1998) (89)
- Inhibition of calcium spikes and transmitter release by γ‐aminobutyric acid in the guinea‐pig myenteric plexus (1984) (89)
- Mediators of slow synaptic potentials in the myenteric plexus of the guinea‐pig ileum (1981) (88)
- Identification of amino acid residues involved in dendrotoxin block of rat voltage-dependent potassium channels. (1991) (88)
- Opiate activation of potassium conductance in myenteric neurons: inhibition by calcium ion (1982) (85)
- Opiates and enkephalin reduce the excitability of neuronal processes (1981) (84)
- Opioids increase potassium conductance in submucous neurones of guinea‐pig caecum by activating δ‐receptors (1986) (84)
- Neurotensin excitation of rat ventral tegmental neurones. (1994) (83)
- Opioid actions on rat anterior cingulate cortex neurons in vitro (1994) (83)
- Membrane properties and synaptic potentials of three types of neurone in rat lateral amygdala. (1993) (83)
- Potassium conductance increased by noradrenaline, opioids, somatostatin, and G-proteins: whole-cell recording from guinea pig submucous neurons (1990) (81)
- An amino acid mutation in a potassium channel that prevents inhibition by protein kinase C. (1992) (78)
- Enkephalin inhibits firing of myenteric neurones (1976) (78)
- Actions of cocaine on rat nucleus accumbens neurones in vitro (1990) (78)
- Opioid inhibition of synaptic transmission in the guinea‐pig myenteric plexus (1985) (77)
- The action of 5-hydroxytryptamine on single neurones of the rabbit superior cervical ganglion (1978) (77)
- Presynaptic inhibition by baclofen of retinohypothalamic excitatory synaptic transmission in rat suprachiasmatic nucleus (1995) (76)
- Actions and distributions of opioid peptides in peripheral tissues. (1983) (75)
- Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide excites neurones of the myenteric plexus (1979) (75)
- Synaptic potentials in rat locus coeruleus neurones. (1988) (74)
- Regulation by second messengers of the slowly activating, voltage‐dependent potassium current expressed in Xenopus oocytes. (1992) (73)
- Differential localization of 5-HT1 receptors on myenteric and submucosal neurons. (1988) (70)
- Muscarine reduces inwardly rectifying potassium conductance in rat nucleus accumbens neurones. (1990) (69)
- Dopamine and baclofen inhibit the hyperpolarization‐activated cation current in rat ventral tegmental neurones. (1993) (69)
- Effect of dopamine and baclofen on N-methyl-d-aspartate-induced burst firing in rat ventral tegmental neurons (1994) (68)
- Cation current activated by hyperpolarization (IH) in guinea pig enteric neurons. (1990) (67)
- Catecholamine inhibition of calcium action potentials in rat locus coeruleus neurones (1985) (63)
- Potentiation of enkephalin action by peptidase inhibitors in rat locus ceruleus in vitro. (1987) (61)
- How do opiates inhibit neurotransmitter release? (1983) (61)
- The action of somatostatin on neurones of the myenteric plexus of the guinea‐pig ileum. (1980) (60)
- Single channels activated by acetylcholine in rat superior cervical ganglion. (1987) (59)
- Opiate tolerance and dependence induced in vitro in single myenteric neurones (1978) (58)
- MORPHINE AND SUPRASPINAL INHIBITION OF SPINAL NEURONES: EVIDENCE THAT MORPHÌNE DECREASES TONIC DESCENDING INHIBITION IN THE ANAESTHETIZED CAT (1980) (58)
- Cooperative interactions among subunits of a voltage-dependent potassium channel. Evidence from expression of concatenated cDNAs. (1992) (57)
- Potassium channels opened by noradrenaline and other transmitters in excised membrane patches of guinea‐pig submucosal neurones. (1992) (56)
- Opioid actions on neurons of rat lateral amygdala in vitro (1993) (56)
- Current inactivation involves a histidine residue in the pore of the rat lymphocyte potassium channel RGK5. (1991) (55)
- Adenosine A1 and A2 receptors mediate presynaptic inhibition and postsynaptic excitation in guinea pig submucosal neurons. (1991) (53)
- μ-Opioid receptors andα2-Adrenoceptors coexist on myenteric but not on submucous neurones (1985) (51)
- Methysergide and supraspinal inhibition of the spinal transmission of nociceptive information in the anaesthetized cat (1981) (50)
- Opioid, 5-HT1A and α2 receptors localized to subsets of guinea-pig myenteric neurons (1991) (49)
- Muscarinic agonists and potassium currents in guinea‐pig myenteric neurones (1989) (49)
- Extracellular recording from the guinea-pig myenteric plexus and the action of morphine. (1977) (49)
- Significance of slow synaptic potentials for transmission of excitation in guinea-pig myenteric plexus (1985) (48)
- Hypotonic solution increases the slowly activating potassium current IsK expressed in xenopus oocytes. (1992) (48)
- Effects of endorphins on single myenteric neurons (1979) (47)
- Presynaptic action of noradrenaline in the myenteric plexus. (1973) (47)
- Benzodiazepines both enhance γ-aminobutyrate responses and decrease calcium action potentials in guinea-pig myenteric neurones (1985) (46)
- Inhibition of firing of myenteric neurones by somatostatin (1978) (46)
- Calcium‐dependent after‐potentials in visceral afferent neurones of the rabbit. (1984) (45)
- The action of neurotensin on single myenteric neurones. (1979) (45)
- Effects of ecotropic murine retroviruses on the dual-function cell surface receptor/basic amino acid transporter. (1992) (44)
- A non‐adrenergic, non‐cholinergic slow inhibitory post‐synaptic potential in neurones of the guinea‐pig submucous plexus. (1987) (41)
- Effects of barium, lanthanum and gadolinium on endogenous chloride and potassium currents in Xenopus oocytes. (1996) (41)
- Receptors on individual neurones (1986) (41)
- Calcium entry through acetylcholine-channels can activate potassium conductance in bullfrog sympathetic neurons (1984) (39)
- Action of morphine on guinea-pig myenteric plexus and mouse vas deferens studied by intracellular recording. (1975) (38)
- INHIBITION OF NEURONAL FIRING BY OPIATES: EVIDENCE AGAINST THE INVOLVEMENT OF CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDES (1979) (38)
- DEPRESSION BY MORPHINE OF EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIALS IN THE VAS DEFERENS OF THE MOUSE (1976) (36)
- MK-801 blocks nicotinic depolarizations of guinea pig myenteric neurons (1990) (34)
- Electrical activity of longitudinal and circular muscle during peristalsis. (1983) (34)
- Opiates, opioid peptides and single neurones. (1979) (33)
- Observations on the actions of substance P and [d-Arg1, d-Pro2, d-Trp7,9,Leu11]substance P on single neurons of the guinea pig submucous plexus (1987) (33)
- Effects of morphine on myenteric plexus neurones (1976) (32)
- Cellular Actions of Opiates and Cocaine (1992) (31)
- Opiate effects on rabbit vagus nerve: Electrophysiology and radioligand binding (1981) (31)
- Nicotinic depolarization activates calcium dependent gK in myenteric neurons (1983) (30)
- , u and K opioids inhibit transmitter release by different mechanisms (30)
- Opiate withdrawal signs in single myenteric neurones (1978) (29)
- Potassium channel assembly from concatenated subunits: effects of proline substitutions in S4 segments. (1995) (29)
- Effects of three mammalian tachykinins on single enteric neurons (1987) (28)
- Cation current activated by hyperpolarization in a subset of rat nucleus accumbens neurons. (1990) (28)
- Sulfonylurea-sensitive potassium current evoked by sodium-loading in rat midbrain dopamine neurons (1996) (26)
- Acute and chronic effects of opiates on single neurons of the myenteric plexus. (1981) (26)
- Actions of gamma-aminobutyric acid on neurones of guinea-pig myenteric plexus. (1984) (23)
- THE EFFECT OF CHRONIC MORPHINE TREATMENT ON EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIALS IN THE MOUSE VAS DEFERENS (1980) (23)
- Transmitter regulation of voltage-dependent K+ channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes. (1991) (20)
- Mechanisms of tolerance to opiates in locus coeruleus neurons. (1987) (19)
- Morphine augments calcium‐dependent potassium conductance in guinea‐pig myenteric neurones (1984) (19)
- Electrophysiology of peptides in the peripheral nervous system. (1982) (19)
- Electrophysiology of the Enteric Neurons (1982) (18)
- Opioid, 5-HT1A and alpha 2 receptors localized to subsets of guinea-pig myenteric neurons. (1991) (17)
- The time course of muscarinic depolarization of guinea‐pig myenteric neurones (1984) (17)
- 30 years on (2004) (15)
- Control of ion conductances by muscarinic receptors. (1988) (15)
- Aromatic residues affecting permeation and gating in dSlo BK channels (1998) (14)
- Cocaine enhancement of the action of 5-hydroxytryptamine in rat cingulate cortex in vitro (1993) (13)
- Ouabain augments calcium‐dependent potassium conductance in visceral primary afferent neurones of the rabbit. (1987) (13)
- Membrane Potential Measured During Potassium‐Evoked Release of Noradrenaline from Rat Brain Neurons: Effects of Normorphine (1986) (13)
- The inward rectifier potassium conductance in rat basophilic leukemia cells (1992) (13)
- Membrane potential changes in neurones undergoing withdrawal from opiates (1980) (12)
- Presynaptic Actions of Opioids (1993) (12)
- EFFECTS OF DIVALENT CATIONS AND NORMORPHINE ON SPONTANEOUS EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIALS IN THE MOUSE VAS DEFERENS (1982) (12)
- Tetrahydroisoquinolines (TIQs) do not act on opiate receptors in the guinea-pig ileum. (1981) (11)
- INTERACTIONS AMONG THE EFFECTS OF NORMORPHINE, CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM ON TRANSMITTER RELEASE IN THE MOUSE VAS DEFERENS (1982) (11)
- 1,3-Di(2-tolyl)guanidine blocks nicotinic response in guinea pig myenteric neurons. (1989) (10)
- Action of naloxone on myenteric neurons removed from morphine-treated guinea pigs. (1988) (10)
- Synaptic input to cells of the rabbit superior cervical ganglion (1978) (9)
- Tolerance to opioids in single locus coeruleus neurons of the rat. (1986) (9)
- A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF CYCLIC ADENOSINE 3′,5′‐MONOPHOSPHATE IN THE DEPRESSION BY OPIATES AND OPIOID PEPTIDES OF EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIALS IN THE MOUSE VAS DEFERENS (1980) (8)
- Actions of peptides on enteric neurones. (1980) (7)
- Dopamine hyperpolarizes neurons in the rat substantia nigra zona compacta in vitro by increasing potassium conductance (1986) (7)
- Proceedings: Presynaptic action of 5-hydroxytryptamine in the myenteric plexus of the guinea-pig ileum. (1975) (6)
- III. Drug receptors on single enteric neurons (1988) (5)
- Proceedings: Intracellular recording and electron microscopy of the same myenteric plexus neurone. (1974) (4)
- Hyperpolarization of myenteric neurones by enkephalin [proceedings]. (1977) (4)
- Actions of enkephalin on myenteric neurons (1977) (4)
- Pharmacology of the forgotten nervous system (1980) (4)
- OPIATES CAUSE ACTIVATION OF A CALCIUM-DEPENDENT POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE (1981) (3)
- A serotonergic excitatory transmission via 5-HT3 receptors in rat amygdala (1992) (2)
- A Family Of Neurotransmitter Receptors Couple to a Potassium Conductance (1988) (2)
- Drug receptors on single enteric neurons. (1988) (2)
- Mechanisms of Autonomic Integration (2011) (2)
- Cholinergic Excitation of A9 and A10 Dopaminergic Neurones in Vitro through Both Nicotinic and Muscarinic Receptors (1991) (2)
- Cisapride potentiates fast nicotinic synaptic potentials in the myenteric plexus of the guinea pig ileum. (1988) (2)
- THE SITE OF BINDING OF ALPHA -DENDROTOXIN TO VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT POTASSIUM CHANNELS CLONED FROM RAT BRAIN AND EXPRESSED IN XENOPUS OOCYTES (1991) (2)
- Inhibition ofcalcium spikes andtransmitter release by y-aminobutyric acidintheguinea-pig myenteric plexus (1984) (2)
- D2 Receptor Activation Increases Potassium Conductance in Substantia Nigra Zona Compacta Neurones in vitro (1988) (1)
- Electrical Coupling Synchronizes Subthreshold Coeruleus Neurons in vitro from Neonatal Rats Activity in Locus (1989) (1)
- Characterization of mammalian potassium channel genes. (1991) (1)
- Second messenger regulation of the slowly activating, voltage-dependent potassium current (I(sK)) in Xenopus oocytes (1992) (1)
- Tachykinins depress the persistent calcium-sensitive potassium current in myenteric AH cells of the guinea-pig ileum (1987) (1)
- Burst Firing Induced by N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Requires Activation of an Electrogenic Sodium Pump in Rat Dopamine Neurons (1994) (1)
- Effect of extracellular pH on inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in guinea pig submucous neurones (1991) (0)
- uandKopioids inhibit transmitter release bydifferent mechanisms (1985) (0)
- ANTINOCICEPTIVE EFFECTS OF A NEW CENTRALLY-ACTING MUSCLE RELAXANT DS 103-282 ON CAT DORSAL HORN NEURONES (2007) (0)
- Evidence for both mu and delta opiate receptors on the same myenteric neurons (1981) (0)
- Ligand-gated single K+ channels in acutely dissociated neurons from rat locus coeruleus (1990) (0)
- Inward Rectifying Properties of Nucleus Accumbens Neurones in Vitro (1991) (0)
- Effects of a proline residue in the S4 regions of a concatenated rat brain channel expressed in Xenopus oocytes (1993) (0)
- Observations on single ion channels affected by inhibitory transmitters in guinea pig submucous plexus neurones (1991) (0)
- Transmitter Regulation of Mesencephalic Dopamine Cells (2019) (0)
- g and 6 receptors belong to a family of receptors that are coupled to potassium channels ( opioids / neuron / potassium conductance / guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins / narcotic drugs (0)
- Intracellular recording of the effects of 5-hydroxytryptamine on rabbit superior cervical ganglion cells [proceedings]. (1977) (0)
- Actions ofcocaine on ratdopaminergic neurones invitro (1990) (0)
- Cocaine-induced potentiation of hyperpolarizing synaptic potential in rat locus coeruleus neurons (1986) (0)
- K+-conductance increase and Ca2+-conductance decrease by noradrenaline and met-enkephalin in the guinea pig caecum submucous plexus neurons require G-proteins (1990) (0)
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