Cocaine intake by rats correlates with cocaine-induced dopamine changes in the nucleus accumbens shell

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 397-401

  Ferraro, T N ^a   Golden, G T ^a,b   Berrettini, W H ^a   Gottheil, E ^c   Yang, C H ^b   Cuppels, G R ^c   Vogel, W H ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Cocaine self administration; Dopamine; Frontal cortex; Intracerebral microdialysis; Nucleus accumbens; Shell of nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DOPAMINE; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034046283     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(00)00187-8     Document Type: Article

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