Ultrastructural immunocytochemical localization of μ-opioid receptors in rat nucleus accumbens: Extrasynaptic plasmalemmal distribution and association with Leu5-enkephalin

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 4162-4173

  Svingos, Adena L ^a,d   Moriwaki, Akiyoshi ^b,c   Wang, Jia Bei ^b,c   Unl, George R ^b,c   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Medical College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

enkephalin; morphine; opiates; reinforcement; striatum; opioid receptor

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; MORPHINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; OPIATE AGONIST;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 0030011305     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-13-04162.1996     Document Type: Article

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