Nicotine-induced fos expression in the nucleus accumbens and the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat: Role of nicotinic and NMDA receptors in the ventral tegmental area

Synapse

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 314-321

  Schilström, Björn ^a   De Villiers, Sabina ^a   Malmerfelt, Anna ^a   Svensson, Torgny H ^a   Nomikos, George G ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Fos immunohistochemistry; Glutamate; Microdialys

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE C FOS; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; DRUG SYNERGISM; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS; MALE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 0034660369     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(20000615)36:4<314::AID-SYN8>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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