Nerve Terminal Glutamate Immunoreactivity in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens and Ventral Tegmental Area after a Short Withdrawal from Cocaine

Synapse

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 224-232

  Kozell, L B ^a   Meshul, Charles K ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunocytochemistry; Presynaptic vesicular sensitization

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SYNAPTOSOME; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0942297966     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10304     Document Type: Article

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