Acute increase of the glutamate-glutamine cycling in discrete brain areas after administration of a single dose of amphetamine

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1139, Issue , 2008, Pages 212-221

  Pereira, Frederico C ^a   Rolo, Marta R ^a   Marques, Elsa ^a   Mendes, Vera M ^a   Ribeiro, Carlos F ^a   Ali, Syed F ^b   Morgadinho, Teresa ^a   Macedo, Tice R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Division of Neurotoxicology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Brain; GABA; Glutamate glutamine cycle

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMPHETAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ASTROCYTE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PUTAMEN; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

RATTUS;

EID: 53549123858     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1432.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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