Differential effects of the D- and L- isomers of amphetamine on pharmacological MRI BOLD contrast in the rat

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-30

  Easton, Neil ^a   Marshall, Fiona ^b   Fone, Kevin C F ^a   Marsden, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADHD; Amphetamine; BOLD; fMRI; phMRI; Prefrontal cortex; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN REGION; BREATHING RATE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISOMER; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 34250159881     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-007-0756-5     Document Type: Article

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