Local muscimol disinhibits mesolimbic dopaminergic activity as examined by brain microdialysis and Fos immunohistochemistry

Brain Research

Volumn 767, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 356-360

  Yoshida, Masami ^a   Yokoo, Hideyasu ^a   Nakahara, Kimihiro ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a   Hamada, Naoyuki ^a   Ishikawa, Michiko ^a   Hatakeyama, Jyunko ^a   Tanaka, Masatoshi ^a   Nagatsu, Ikuko ^b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Fos expression; Microdialysis; Muscimol; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; MUSCIMOL; PROTEIN C FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS MEMBRANE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MUSCIMOL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030756622     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00474-5     Document Type: Article

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