Nicotine sensitization increases dendritic length and spine density in the nucleus accumbens and cingulate cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 899, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 94-100

  Brown, Russell W ^a,b   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Dendritic morphology; Golgi stain; Nicotine; Nucleus accumbens; Parietal cortex; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ABSTINENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; HABITUATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 0035957788     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(01)02201-6     Document Type: Article

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