Estradiol increases the sensitivity of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons to dopamine and ethanol

• Bertha J. Vandegrift,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Chang You,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Rosalba Satta,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Mark S. Brodie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Amy W. Lasek

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alasek@uic.edu

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7099-2442

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