Involvement of the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus in the locomotor response to repeated nicotine administration

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 380, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 335-339

  Alderson, Helen L ^a   Latimer, Mary P ^a   Winn, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Dopamine; Mesopontine tegmentum; Rat

Indexed keywords

CARPROFEN; DOPAMINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HYPOTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TEGMENTUM;

EID: 18144392351     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.01.067     Document Type: Article

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