Intrastriatal injection of the metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist MCPG attenuates acute amphetamine-stimulated neuropeptide mRNA expression in rat striatum

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-16

  Wang, John Q ^a   McGinty, Jacqueline F ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(+) Methyl 4 carboxyphenylglycine; Caudate; Dynorphin; Enkephalin; Excitatory amino acid; mRNA; Substance P

Indexed keywords

ALPHA METHYL 4 CARBOXYPHENYLGLYCINE; AMPHETAMINE; DYNORPHIN; ENKEPHALIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MESSENGER RNA; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030601866     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)13107-4     Document Type: Article

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