Preferential enhancement of dopamine transmission within the nucleus accumbens shell by cocaine is attributable to a direct increase in phasic dopamine release events

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 8821-8831

  Aragona, Brandon J ^a   Cleaveland, Nathan A ^a   Stuber, Garret D ^a   Day, Jeremy J ^a   Carelli, Regina M ^a,b   Wightman, R Mark ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Carbon fiber microelectrode; Drug abuse; in vivo voltammetry; Neurotransmission; Reward

Indexed keywords

AUTORECEPTOR; COCAINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR; RACLOPRIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN LEVEL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; EVOKED RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RACLOPRIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 52049097038     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2225-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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