William T. O'Connor

Best Publications

• The contributions of motor cortex, nigrostriatal dopamine and caudate-putamen to skilled forelimb use in the rat.

  Ian Q. Whishaw;William T. O'connor;Stephen B. Dunnett

  513
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• Spinal cord stimulation attenuates augmented dorsal horn release of excitatory amino acids in mononeuropathy via a GABAergic mechanism

  Jian-Guo Cui;William T O'Connor;Urban Ungerstedt;Bengt Linderoth

  406
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• Release of gamma-aminobutyric acid in the dorsal horn and suppression of tactile allodynia by spinal cord stimulation in mononeuropathic rats.

  Carl-Olav Stiller;Jian-Guo Cui;William T. O'Connor;Ernst Brodin

  362
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• The striopallidal neuron : a main locus for adenosine-dopamine interactions in the brain

  Sergi Ferré;William T. O'Connor;Kjell Fuxe;Urban Ungerstedt

  304
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• Disruption of central cholinergic systems in the rat by basal forebrain lesions or atropine: effects on feeding, sensorimotor behaviour, locomotor activity and spatial navigation.

  I.Q. Whishaw;W.T. O'Connor;S.B. Dunnett

  254
  Citations

• N-methyl-D-aspartic acid differentially regulates extracellular dopamine, GABA, and glutamate levels in the dorsolateral neostriatum of the halothane-anesthetized rat: an in vivo microdialysis study.

  M. Morari;W. T. O'Connor;U. Ungerstedt;K. Fuxe

  223
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• Differential effects of single and repeated ketamine administration on dopamine, serotonin and GABA transmission in rat medial prefrontal cortex.

  N Lindefors;S Barati;W.T O'Connor

  222
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• Antagonistic interaction between adenosine A2A receptors and dopamine D2 receptors in the ventral striopallidal system. Implications for the treatment of schizophrenia.

  S. Ferré;S. Ferré;W.T. O'Connor;P. Snaprud;U. Ungerstedt

  212
  Citations

• The vigilance promoting drug modafinil increases dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens via the involvement of a local GABAergic mechanism

  Luca Ferraro;Sergio Tanganelli;William Thomas O'Connor;Tiziana Antonelli

  190
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• Modafinil: An antinarcoleptic drug with a different neurochemical profile to d-amphetamine and dopamine uptake blockers

  Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;William T. O'Connor;Sergio Tanganelli

  182
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• The effects of modafinil on striatal, pallidal and nigral GABA and glutamate release in the conscious rat: evidence for a preferential inhibition of striato-pallidal GABA transmission

  Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;William T. O'Connor;Sergio Tanganelli

  171
  Citations

• Gamma-aminobutyric acid is released in the dorsal horn by electrical spinal cord stimulation: an in vivo microdialysis study in the rat.

  Bengt Linderoth;Carl-Olav Stiller;Lal Gunasekera;William T. O'Connor

  168
  Citations

• Caffeine enhances acetylcholine release in the hippocampus in vivo by a selective interaction with adenosine A1 receptors.

  A J Carter;W T O'Connor;M J Carter;U Ungerstedt

  168
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• Metabotropic glutamate mGlu5 receptor-mediated modulation of the ventral striopallidal GABA pathway in rats. Interactions with adenosine A(2A) and dopamine D(2) receptors.

  Zaida Dı́az-Cabiale;Meritxell Vivó;Alberto Del Arco;William T. O'Connor

  160
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• Dopamine D1 receptor-mediated facilitation of GABAergic neurotransmission in the rat strioentopenduncular pathway and its modulation by adenosine A1 receptor-mediated mechanisms.

  Sergi Ferré;William T. O'Connor;Per Svenningsson;Lars Björklund

  159
  Citations

• The vigilance promoting drug modafinil decreases GABA release in the medial preoptic area and in the posterior hypothalamus of the awake rat: possible involvement of the serotonergic 5-HT3 receptor.

  Luca Ferraro;Sergio Tanganelli;William Thomas O'Connor;Tiziana Antonelli

  156
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• The antinarcoleptic drug modafinil increases glutamate release in thalamic areas and hippocampus.

  Luca Ferraro;Tiziana Antonelli;William O'Connor;Sergio Tanganelli

  156
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• Bayesian estimation of synaptic physiology from the spectral responses of neural masses

  Rosalyn J. Moran;Klaas E. Stephan;Klaas E. Stephan;Stefan J. Kiebel;N. Rombach

  151
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• Intramembrane interactions between neurotensin receptors and dopamine D2 receptors as a major mechanism for the neuroleptic-like action of neurotensin.

  K. Fuxe;G. Euler;L. F. Agnati;E. Merlo Pich

  136
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• Altered striatal amino acid neurotransmitter release monitored using microdialysis in R6/1 Huntington transgenic mice.

  B Nicniocaill;Birgit Haraldsson;Oskar Hansson;W T O'Connor

  136
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