Estrogen differentially modulates nicotine-evoked dopamine release from the striatum of male and female rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 140-142

  Dluzen, Dean E ^a   Anderson, Linda I ^a  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine release; Dopamine transporter; Gonadal steroids; Nigrostriatal; Sex differences; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; KINETICS; MALE; NICOTINE; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0030860737     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00487-4     Document Type: Article

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