Noradrenergic modulation of methamphetamine-induced striatal dopamine depletion

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 844, Issue , 1998, Pages 166-177

  Formai, Francesco ^a,b   Alessandrì, Maria Grazia ^b   Torracca, Maria Tilde ^a   Bassi, Lucia ^a   Scalori, Vera ^a   Corsini, Giovanni Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 BROMO N (2 CHLOROETHYL) N ETHYLBENZYLAMINE; CLONIDINE; DOPAMINE; METHAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; RAT;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031870596     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb08231.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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