Cocaine withdrawal reduces dopamine transporter binding in the shell of the nucleus accumbens

Synapse

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-92

  Pilotte, Nancy S ^a   Sharpe, Lawrence G ^a   Rountree, Stephen D ^a   Kuhar, Michael J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

125I RTI 121; Cocaine; Mesolimbic pathways; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; COCAINE;

ADAPTATION; ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CARRIER PROTEINS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NARCOTICS; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0030069199     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199601)22:1<87::AID-SYN10>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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