Differential behavioral responses to cocaethylene of Long-Evans and Sprague-Dawley rats: Role of serotonin

Synapse

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-21

  Horowitz, Judith M ^a   Kristal, Mark B ^a   Torres, German ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

cocaine; dopamine; ethanol; fluoxetine; metabolism; raphe nucleus; rat; strain differences; striatum; ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; FLUOXETINE; HOMOCOCAINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; STEREOTYPY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0030988511     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199705)26:1<11::AID-SYN2>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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