δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol increases prefrontal cortical catecholaminergic utilization and impairs spatial working memory in the rat: Blockade of dopaminergic effects with HA966

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 426-432

  Jentsch, J David ^a   Andrusiak, Ericka ^a   Tran, Anh ^a   Bowers Jr , Malcolm B ^a   Roth, Robert H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cannabinoids; Cognition; Delayed Alteration; Memory; Monoamines; Psychotomimetics

Indexed keywords

3 AMINO 1 HYDROXY 2 PYRROLIDINONE; DOPAMINE; DRONABINOL; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; ENANTIOMER; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COGNITION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; HALLUCINOGENS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEOSTRIATUM; NOREPINEPHRINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRROLIDINONES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

EID: 0030908795     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(97)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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