Acute and repeated systemic amphetamine administration: Effects on extracellular glutamate, aspartate, and serine levels in rat ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 352-363

  Xue, Chang Jiang ^a   Ng, Jeffrey P ^a   Li, Yong ^a   Wolf, Marina E ^a,b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Glutamate; Microdialysis; Nucleus accumbens; Sensitization; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HALOPERIDOL; SERINE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029931274     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1996.67010352.x     Document Type: Article

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