Elevated locomotor activity without altered striatal dopamine contents in Nurr1 heterozygous mice after acute exposure to methamphetamine

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-100

  Bäckman, Cristina ^a   You, Zhi Bing ^a   Perlmann, Thomas ^b   Hoffer, Barry J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behavior; Dopamine; Methamphetamine; Nurr1

Indexed keywords

METHAMPHETAMINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STRAIN; HETEROZYGOSITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0038352093     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00029-9     Document Type: Article

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