Repeated cocaine treatment alters tyrosine hydroxylase in the rat nucleus accumbens

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 407-411

  Todtenkopf, M S ^a   De Leon, K R ^a   Stellar, J R ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral sensitization; Dopamine; Immunoreactivity; Striatum; Varicosities

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0034661642     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(00)00277-X     Document Type: Article

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