Acute and long-term changes in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway after systemic or local single nicotine injections

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1810-1818

  Ferrari, R ^a   Le Novere N ^b   Picciotto, M R ^c   Changeux, J P ^b   Zoli, Michele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GluR1; in situ hybridization; Intracerebral microdialysis; Locomotor activity; Rat; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0036460446     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2001.02009.x     Document Type: Article

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