Influence of nicotine on brain reward systems: Study of intracranial self-stimulation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1025, Issue , 2004, Pages 489-490

  Nakahara, Daiichiro ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Nicotine; Self stimulation

Indexed keywords

MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SELF STIMULATION; TEGMENTUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10444275644     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1316.060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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