Electrolytic lesions of a discrete area within the nucleus accumbens shell attenuate the long-term expression, but not early phase, of sensitization to cocaine

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 219-223

  Brenhouse, Heather C ^a   Montalto, Stefanie ^a   Stellar, James R ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrolytic lesion; Nucleus accumbens shell; Psychostimulants; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; PROTEIN C FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTRODE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSITIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNAPSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ELECTROLYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 33646495287     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.02.029     Document Type: Article

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