Differential effects of nicotine and complex housing on subsequent experience-dependent structural plasticity in the nucleus accumbens

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 355-365

  Hamilton, Derek A ^a,b   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera lucida; Enrichment; Golgi; Mesolimbic dopamine system; Stimulants

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC SPINE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HOUSING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GANGLIONIC STIMULANTS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 17444413710     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.2.355     Document Type: Article

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