Contextual cues associated with nicotine administration increase arc mRNA expression in corticolimbic areas of the rat brain

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1703-1711

  Schiltz, Craig A ^a   Kelley, Ann E ^a   Landry, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Immediate early gene; Prefrontal cortex; Relapse; Sprague Dawley

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARC GENE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTEXTUAL CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; EMOTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELAPSE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NICOTINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 18444408392     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04001.x     Document Type: Article

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