Effect of morphine dependence on the levels of neurosteroids and amino acid transmitters in rat nucleus accumbens

Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 493-496

  Wu, Hong Hai ^a   Wang, Na ^a   Hou, Yan Ning ^a  

^a BETHUNE INTERNATIONAL PEACE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Dependent; Glutamate; Glycine; Morphine; Neurosteroids; Nucleus accumbens; Withdrawal; aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NEUROSTEROID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PREGNENOLONE; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHINE ADDICTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 22444436182     PISSN: 10011978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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