Chronic cocaine produces decreases in N/OFQ peptide levels in select rat brain regions

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-164

  Romualdi, Patrizia ^a   Di Benedetto, Manuela ^a   D'Addario, Claudio ^a   Collins, Stephanie L ^b   Wade, Dean ^b   Candeletti, Sanzio ^a   Izenwasser, Sari ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudate putamen; Cocaine; N OFQ; Nucleus accumbens; Opioid; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; NOCICEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PUTAMEN; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

RATTUS;

EID: 34248332052     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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