Motor-skill learning-associated gene regulation in the striatum: Effects of cocaine

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2669-2682

  Willuhn, Ingo ^a   Steiner, Heinz ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

c fos; Cocaine; Dopamine; Motor skill learning; Running wheel; Striatum; Substance P

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; ENKEPHALIN; PROTEIN C FOS; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GENE CONTROL; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RUNNING; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; DYNORPHINS; ENKEPHALINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE P; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33751082631     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300995     Document Type: Article

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