Methamphetamine canges NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptor subunit levels in the rat striatum and frontal cortex

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1139, Issue , 2008, Pages 232-241

  Simões, Patrícia F ^a   Silva, Ana P ^a   Pereira, Frederico C ^a   Marques, Elsa ^a   Milhazes, Nuno ^b   Borges, Fernanda ^b   Ribeiro, Carlos F ^a   Macedo, Tice R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; GluR2; Methamphetamine; NR1; NR2A; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; METHAMPHETAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; FLUORO JADE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG ABUSE; EXCITOTOXICITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOSIS; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 53549113651     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1432.028     Document Type: Article

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