Withdrawal duration differentially affects c-fos expression in the medial prefrontal cortex and discrete subregions of the nucleus accumbens in cocaine-sensitized rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1061-1069

  Todtenkopf, M S ^a,b   Mihalakopoulos, A ^a   Stellar, J R ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Core; Dopamine; Immediate early gene; Mesocorticolimbic; Rostral pole; Shell

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG SENSITIZATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0036837173     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00272-5     Document Type: Article

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