Dual ultrastructural localization of μ-opioid receptors and NMDA-type glutamate receptors in the shell of the rat nucleus accumbens

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4839-4848

  Gracy, K Noelle ^a,b   Svingos, Adena L ^a   Pickel, Virginia M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Addiction; Colocalization; Enkephalin; Glutamate; Immunocytoche mistry; Locomotion; Morphine; Opiate; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0030974668     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-12-04839.1997     Document Type: Article

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