Imidazenil, a positive allosteric GABA(A) receptor modulator, inhibits the effects of cocaine on locomotor activity and extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens shell without tolerance liability

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 58-66

  Giorgetti, Marco ^a,b   Javaid, Javaid I ^a   Davis, John M ^a   Costa, Erminio ^a,b,d   Guidotti, Alessandro ^a,b   Appel, Sarah B ^a,c   Brodie, Mark S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Department of Veteran Affairs   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d Psychiatric Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; COCAINE; IMIDAZENIL;

ALLOSTERISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG EFFECT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; LOCOMOTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; REINFORCEMENT;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANIMALS; BENZODIAZEPINES; COCAINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIAZEPAM; DOPAMINE; DRUG TOLERANCE; GABA MODULATORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMIDAZOLES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0032453937     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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