Cocaine administration increases the fraction of CART cells in the rat nucleus accumbens that co-immunostain for c-Fos

Neuropeptides

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 339-343

  Hubert, G W ^a   Kuhar, M J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CART; Cocaine; Drug abuse; Neuropeptides; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; PROTEIN C FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COCAINE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 44149095712     PISSN: 01434179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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