Repeated amphetamine administration alters the expression of mRNA for AMPA receptor subunits in rat nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex

Synapse

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-280

  Lu, Wenxiao ^a   Chen, Huiyuan ^a   Xue, Chang Jiang ^a   Wolf, Marina E ^a,b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b The Chicago Medical College   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral sensitization; excitatory amino acids; in situ hybridization; nucleus accumbens; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; AMPHETAMINE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; DOPAMINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERIKARYON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030976655     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199707)26:3<269::AID-SYN8>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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