Frequency of dopamine concentration transients increases in dorsal and ventral striatum of male rats during introduction of conspecifics

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 10477-10486

  Robinson, Donita L ^a   Heien, Michael L A V ^a   Wightman, R Mark ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulation; Dopamine; Extracellular; Social interaction; Solitude; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0036896011     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-23-10477.2002     Document Type: Article

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