An examination of glutamate decarboxylase65 immunoreactive puncta with respect to rat ventral pallidum neurons after repeated cocaine administration

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 69-72

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

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral sensitization; Cocaine; Glutamate decarboxylase; Immunocytochemistry; Nucleus accumbens; Ventral pallidum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SENSITIZATION;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOENZYMES; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0034697076     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00973-3     Document Type: Article

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