Effect of ventral tegmental 6-hydroxydopamine lesions on the locomotor stimulant action of nicotine in rats

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1503-1513

  Louis, M ^a   Clarke, Paul B s ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

6 Hydroxydopamine; Dopamine; Locomotor activity; Mesolimbic; Nicotine; Nigrostriatal; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

3BETA (4 IODOPHENYL) 2BETA TROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; AMPHETAMINE; IODINE 125; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; OXIDOPAMINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CATECHOLAMINE DEPLETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CARRIER PROTEINS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COCAINE; DENERVATION; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXIDOPAMINE; PUTAMEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SCOPOLAMINE; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032404076     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3908(98)00151-8     Document Type: Article

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