Chronic nicotine exposure switches the functional role of mesolimbic dopamine transmission in the processing of nicotine's rewarding and aversive effects

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 741-751

  Tan, Huibing ^a   Bishop, Stephanie F ^a   Lauzon, Nicole M ^a   Sun, Ninglei ^a   Laviolette, Steven R ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Addiction; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Nicotine; Reward; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DRUG EXPOSURE; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUPENTHIXOL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MECAMYLAMINE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 60149093922     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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