Chronic hyperammonemia alters motor and neurochemical responses to activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors in the nucleus accumbens in rats in vivo

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 380-390

  Canales, Juan José ^a,b   Elayadi, Amina ^a   Errami, Mohammed ^a   Llansola, Marta ^a   Cauli, Omar ^a   Felipo, Vicente ^a  

^a Laboratorio de Neurobiologia de Prince Felipe Research Centre   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Dopamine; Glutamate; Hepatic Encephalopathy; Motor behavior

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR AGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERAMMONEMIA; IN VIVO STUDY; INJECTION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0346848900     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2003.08.023     Document Type: Article

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