Clonidine fails to modify dopaminergic neuronal activity during morphine withdrawal

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-6

  Gobbi, G ^a   Muntoni, A L ^a   Gessa, G L ^a   Diana, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clonidine; Dopamine neurons; Extracellular recording; Morphine withdrawal

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; CLONIDINE; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MORPHINE DEPENDENCE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0034794993     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130100832     Document Type: Article

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