Effects of cocaethylene on dopamine and serotonin synthesis in Long- Evans and Sprague-Dawley brains

Brain Research

Volumn 804, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 316-319

  Baumann, Michael H ^a   Horowitz, Judith M ^b   Kristal, Mark B ^b   Torres, German ^b  

^a Clinical Psychopharmacology Section   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Caudate nucleus; Cingulate cortex; Genotype; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; HOMOCOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN METABOLISM;

5-HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; LEVODOPA; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0032494267     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00714-8     Document Type: Article

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