Repeated amphetamine administration outside the home cage enhances drug-induced Fos expression in rat nucleus accumbens

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 88-98

  Mattson, Brandi J ^a   Crombag, Hans S ^a   Mitchell, Tim ^a   Simmons, Danielle E ^a   Kreuter, Justin D ^a   Morales, Marisela ^a   Hope, Bruce T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Enkephalin; Environmental modulation; In situ hybridization; Locomotor activity; Sensitization; Stereotypy; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; ENKEPHALIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PUTAMEN; RAT; SENSITIZATION; STEREOTYPY;

AMPHETAMINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ENKEPHALINS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 35548956871     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.07.024     Document Type: Article

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