Reduced G-protein coupling to the GABAB receptor in the nucleus accumbens and the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat after chronic treatment with nicotine

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 355, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 161-164

  Amantea, Diana ^a   Tessari, Michela ^b   Bowery, Norman G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b GSK   (Italy)

Author keywords

35S GTP S; Drug addiction; G protein; GABAB receptor; Mesocorticolimbic system; Nicotine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; BACLOFEN; DRUG VEHICLE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 5' O (3 THIOTRIPHOSPHATE); NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BACLOFEN; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MALE; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-B;

EID: 1542287198     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.10.060     Document Type: Article

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