Nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex dopaminergic response to self-administered cocaine in naive rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 354, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-208

  Ikegami, Aiko ^a   Duvauchelle, Christine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine self administration; Extracellular dopamine; In vivo microdialysis; Locomotor activity; Nucleus accumbens core; Prelimbic prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0345791452     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.10.033     Document Type: Article

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