The putative atypical antipsychotic drug amperozide preferentially increases c-fos expression in rat medial prefrontal cortex and lateral septum

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 197-201

  Nomikos, George G ^a   Tham, Chui Se ^b   Fibiger, H Christian ^b   Svensson, Torgny H ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Immediate early genes; Nucleus accumbens; Serotonin; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AMPEROZIDE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE C FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030758133     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(97)00041-9     Document Type: Article

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