Fimbria-fornix lesions do not block sensitization to the psychomotor activating effects of amphetamine

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 899-902

  Browman, Kaitlin E ^a   Badiani, Aldo ^a   Robinson, Terry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

6 OHDA lesions; Environment specific sensitization; Hippocampus; Mesostriatal dopaminergic system; Rat; Rotational behavior

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; DESIPRAMINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID RECEPTOR; OXIDOPAMINE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029881983     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0091-3057(95)02059-4     Document Type: Article

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