Relationships between stress-induced increases in medial prefrontal cortical dopamine and plasma corticosterone levels in rats: Role of cerebral laterality

Neuroscience

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-91

  Sullivan, R M ^a   Gratton, A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Clinical depression; Eat odour; HPA axis; Tail pinch stress; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; POTENTIOMETRY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032032342     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00370-9     Document Type: Article

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