Microdialysis in the mouse nucleus accumbens: A method for detection of monoamine and amino acid neurotransmitters with simultaneous assessment of locomotor activity

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-24

  Olive, M Foster ^a   Mehmert, Kristin K ^a   Hodge, Clyde W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Drug of abuse; Locomotor activity; Microdialysis; Monoamine; Mouse

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CUPROPHANE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; MONOAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMBRANE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROCOMPUTERS; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0034054167     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(99)00054-9     Document Type: Article

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