Biochemical studies support the assumption that dopamine plays a minor role in the EEG effects of nicotine

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 192-196

  Ferger, B ^a   Kuschinsky, K ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EEG; microdialysis; nicotine; striatal dopamine

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031028707     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050180     Document Type: Article

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