Differential adaptive properties of accumbens shell dopamine responses to ethanol as a drug and as a motivational stimulus

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1465-1472

  Bassareo, Valentina ^a   De Luca, Maria Antonietta ^a   Aresu, Marzia ^a   Aste, Alessandra ^b   Ariu, Teresa ^b   Di Chiara, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Territorial Department of Nephrology and Dialysis   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Microdialysis; Motivation; Nucleus accumbens; Reward

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DOPAMINE; SUCROSE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSATE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CACAO; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FOODS, SPECIALIZED; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTIVATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SUCROSE; TASTE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038706241     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02556.x     Document Type: Article

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