Augmented cocaine-induced accumbal dopamine efflux, motor activity and place preference in rats fed with a tryptophan-deficient diet

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 401, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 125-129

  Carta, M ^a   Collu, M ^a   Fadda, F ^a   Stancampiano, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dopamine release; Nucleus accumbens; Place preference; Serotonin; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REINFORCEMENT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FOOD, FORMULATED; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; HYPERKINESIS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 33646409313     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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