Adolescent exposure to methylphenidate alters the activity of rat midbrain dopamine neurons

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1338-1344

  Brandon, Cindy L ^a   Marinelli, Michela ^a   White, Francis J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Addiction; Cocaine; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Methylphenidate; Ritalin

Indexed keywords

CHLORAL HYDRATE; DOPAMINE AUTORECEPTOR; METHYLPHENIDATE; QUINPIROLE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BASAL GANGLION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0346599158     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(03)00787-X     Document Type: Article

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