Asymmetry in dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens and motor preference in rats

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 991-994

  Budilin, S Yu ^a   Midzyanovskaya, I S ^a   Shchegolevskii, N V ^a   Ioffe, M E ^a   Bazyan, A S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dopamine concentration; Left handers; Right and left nucleus accumbens; Right handers

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; FORELIMB; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 56249084898     PISSN: 00970549     EISSN: 1573899X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11055-008-9082-6     Document Type: Article

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