Carnosine ameliorates morphine-induced conditioned place preference in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 422, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-38

  Gong, Ying xia ^a,b   Wang, Hui juan ^a   Zhu, Yong ping ^a   Zhang, Wei ping ^a   Dai, Hai bing ^a   Zhang, Shi hong ^a   Wei, Er qing ^a   Chen, Zhong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Carnosine; Conditioned place preference; Dopamine; Glutamate; Histamine; Morphine

Indexed keywords

CARNOSINE; HISTAMINE; MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; HISTAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARNOSINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HISTAMINE; MALE; MORPHINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 34447544305     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.05.048     Document Type: Article

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