Environmental enrichment enhances the stimulant effect of intravenous amphetamine: Search for a cellular mechanism in the nucleus accumbens

Psychobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 292-299

  Bardo, M T ^a   Valone, J M ^a   Robinet, P M ^a   Shaw, W B ^a   Dwoskin, L P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 [2 (BENZHYDRYLOXY)ETHYL] 4 (3 PHENYLPROPYL)PIPERAZINE; AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AUTORECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG ABUSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; REVIEW; SYNAPTOSOME;

EID: 0032792994     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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