Morphine-dopamine interaction: Ventral tegmental morphine increases nucleus accumbens dopamine release

Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 469-472

  Leone, P ^a   Pocock, D ^a   Wise, R A ^a  

^a Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology Groupe de Recherche en Neurobiologie Comportementale   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Morphine; Nucleus accumbens; Opioids; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIALYSIS; DOPAMINE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS; MALE; MICROCHEMISTRY; MORPHINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 0025788959     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0091-3057(91)90210-S     Document Type: Article

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