Involvement of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) in morphine-induced memory retention in morphine-sensitized rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 100-106

  Zarrindast, Mohammad Reza ^a,b,c   Farajzadeh, Zahra ^d   Rostami, Parvin ^d   Rezayof, Ameneh ^e   Nourjah, Parvaneh ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^c INSTITUTE FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE STUDIES   (Iran)

^d KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dopamine receptor antagonists; Morphine; Naloxone; Passive avoidance learning; Rat; Sensitization; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; SULPIRIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AMNESIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG TOLERANCE; MALE; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 22244487013     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.04.006     Document Type: Article

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