Repeated amphetamine administration alters AMPA receptor subunit expression in rat nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex

Synapse

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 119-131

  Lu, Wenxiao ^a   Wolf, Marina E ^a,b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b FUHS The Chicago Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral sensitization; Excitatory amino acids; Glutamate receptors; Immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; AMPHETAMINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SENSITIZATION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033560993     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199905)32:2<119::AID-SYN5>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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