The dopamine transporter: Comparative ultrastructure of dopaminergic axons in limbic and motor compartments of the nucleus accumbens

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 6899-6907

  Nirenberg, Melissa J ^a   Chan, June ^a   Pohorille, Alicia ^a   Vaughan, Roxanne A ^b   Uhl, George R ^b,c   Kuhar, Michael J ^d   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

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

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Amphetamine; Cocaine; Dopamine reuptake; Dopamine transporter; Immunogold; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; COCAINE; NEUROTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; LIMBIC CORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 0030766244     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-18-06899.1997     Document Type: Article

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