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Combined In Vivo Anatomical and Functional Tracing of Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Terminals in the Hippocampus
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Two sources of dopamine for the hippocampus
Colin G McNamara1, David Dupret1
1Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Trends in Neurosciences
|May 18, 2017
Abstract
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Dopaminergic signalling is established as playing an important role in novelty related modulation of hippocampal memory. Two recent studies have identified the noradrenergic fibres originating in the locus coeruleus as an additional source of neurotransmitter acting on dopaminergic receptors in the hippocampus.

