Feeding and systemic d-amphetamine increase extracellular acetylcholine in the medial thalamus: A possible reward enabling function

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 416, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 184-187

  Rada, P ^a,b   Hernandez, L ^a   Hoebel, B G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Amphetamine; Arousal; Feeding; Microdialysis; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; THALAMUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REWARD; THALAMUS;

EID: 33947239671     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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