Repeated cocaine alters glutamate receptor subunit levels in the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area of rats that develop behavioral sensitization

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2397-2403

  Churchill, Lynn ^a   Swanson, Chad J ^b   Urbina, Mary ^a,c   Kalivas, Peter W ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Glutamate; Immunoblots; Nucleus accumbens; Sensitization; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SENSITIZATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033013402     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.0722397.x     Document Type: Article

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