Loss of cocaine locomotor response in Pitx3-deficient mice lacking a nigrostriatal pathway

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1149-1161

  Beeler, Jeff A ^a   Cao, Zhen Fang Huang ^a   Kheirbek, Mazen A ^a   Zhuang, Xiaoxi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Conditioned place preference; Dorsal striatum; Locomotor sensitization; Nucleus accumbens; Pitx3

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SENSITIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 62349107688     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2008.117     Document Type: Article

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