Topography of cocaine-induced gene regulation in the rat striatum: Relationship to cortical inputs and role of behavioural context

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1053-1066

  Willuhn, Ingo ^a   Sun, Weiwen ^a   Steiner, Heinz ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

C fos; Cortex; Dopamine; Dynorphin; Psychostimulant

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DYNORPHIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C FOS; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DYNORPHINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0037353860     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02525.x     Document Type: Article

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