Psychological stress selectively increases extracellular dopamine in the 'shell', but not in the 'core' of the rat nucleus accumbens: A novel dual-needle probe simultaneous microdialysis study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-72

  Wu, Ying Liang ^a,b   Yoshida, Masami ^a   Emoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Tanaka, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHENYANG PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Core; Dopamine; Dual needle probe; Microdialysis; Nucleus accumbens; Psychological stress; Shell

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; EMOTION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MICRODIALYSIS; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032827994     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00747-8     Document Type: Article

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