Cocaine increases extracellular dopamine in rat nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area as shown by in vivo microdialysis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 97-102

  Bradberry, Charles W ^a   Roth, Robert H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dopamine; Microdialysis; Nucleus accumbens; Somatodendritic release; Uptake; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; HISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COCAINE; DIALYSIS; DOPAMINE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; KINETICS; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 0024337066     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(89)90492-8     Document Type: Article

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