Sex and drugs: Comment on "Evidence for involvement of erβ and rgs9-2 in 17-β estradiol enhancement of amphetamine-induced place preference behavior" by Silverman and Koenig

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-145

  Wood, Ruth I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Dopamine; Estrogen; Estrogen receptor beta; Female; Regulator of G protein signaling

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ILLICIT DRUG; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; RGS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OVARIECTOMY; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 34447650220     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.05.003     Document Type: Note

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