Min Qiao
University of Calgary
14 Papers
1 Citations
Min Qiao is an academic researcher from University of Calgary. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ventral tegmental area & Inhibitory postsynaptic potential. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 11 publications.
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Papers
Projection-Target-Defined Effects of Orexin and Dynorphin on VTA Dopamine Neurons
TL;DR: The oxA-dyn input to the VTA may drive reward-seeking behavior by tuning dopaminergic output in a projection-target-dependent manner.
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Consumption of palatable food primes food approach behavior by rapidly increasing synaptic density in the VTA
Shuai Liu,Andrea K Globa,Fergil Mills,Lindsay Naef,Min Qiao,Shernaz X. Bamji,Stephanie L. Borgland +6 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that short-term consumption of palatable food can prime future food approach behaviors and food intake, and suggested that even a short- term exposure to palatable foods can drive future feeding behavior by “rewiring” mesolimbic dopamine neurons.
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Optogenetic stimulation of lateral hypothalamic orexin/dynorphin inputs in the ventral tegmental area potentiates mesolimbic dopamine neurotransmission and promotes reward-seeking behaviours.
Catherine S. Thomas,Aida Mohammadkhani,Madiha Rana,Min Qiao,Corey Baimel,Stephanie L. Borgland +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combined optogenetic, electrochemical, and behavioural approaches to examine the effect of orexin/dynorphin inputs on mesolimbic dopamine and reward related processes.
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Mu-Opioids Suppress GABAergic Synaptic Transmission onto Orbitofrontal Cortex Pyramidal Neurons with Subregional Selectivity.
TL;DR: These experiments are the first to reveal a cellular mechanism of opioid action within the OFC and suggest that presynaptic mu-opioid stimulation of local PV+ interneurons induces a long-lasting suppression of GABAergic synaptic transmission, which depends on subregional differences in mu-OPioid receptor coupling to the downstream cAMP/PKA intracellular cascade.
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Characterization of dopaminergic projections from the ventral tegmental area and the dorsal raphe nucleus to the orbital frontal cortex.
TL;DR: D dopaminergic neurons from the VTA or the DRN project to the OFC and release submicromolar dopamine in the medial and lateral OFC.
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