Behavioral sensitization to cocaine after a brief social stress is accompanied by changes in Fos expression in the murine brainstem

Brain Research

Volumn 810, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 200-210

  Nikulina, Ella M ^a   Marchand, James E ^a   Kream, Richard M ^a   Miczek, Klaus A ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Fos immunohistochemistry; Locomotion; Locus coeruleus; Periaqueductal grey area; Sensitization; Social stress; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INDUCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; STRESS;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN STEM; COCAINE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032501231     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00925-1     Document Type: Article

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