Depletion of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens prevents the generation of locomotion by metabotropic glutamate receptor activation

Brain Research

Volumn 812, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 260-264

  Meeker, Daniella ^a   Kim, Jeong Hoon ^a   Vezina, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

(1S,3R) ACPD; Amphetamine; Dopamine; Excitatory amino acid; Locomotor activity; Metabotropic glutamate receptor; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; CYCLOLEUCINE; DOPAMINE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXIDOPAMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE;

EID: 0032561736     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00941-X     Document Type: Article

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