Glutamate and aspartate levels in the nucleus accumbens during cocaine self-administration and extinction: A time course microdialysis study

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 303-313

  Miguens M ^a   Del Olmo, N ^a   Higuera Matas, A ^a   Torres, I ^a   Garcia Lecumberri C ^a   Ambrosio, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aspartate; Cocaine; Extinction; Glutamate; Microdialysis; Nucleus accumbens; Self administration

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; COCAINE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38349120971     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-007-0958-x     Document Type: Article

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