Effect of methamphetamine on glutamate-positive neurons in the adult and developing rat somatosensory cortex

Synapse

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 328-334

  Pu, Cunfeng ^a   Broening, Harry W ^a   Vorhees, Charles V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; GFAP; Glutamate; Methamphetamine; Neurotoxicity; Rats; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; METHAMPHETAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SILVER STAINING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; EVALUATION STUDIES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0029836623     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199608)23:4<328::AID-SYN11>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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