Metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 modulates the rewarding effects of cocaine in rats: Involvement of a ventral pallidal gabaergic mechanism

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1783-1796

  Li, Xia ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Peng, Xiao Qing ^a   Spiller, Krista ^a   Gardner, Eliot L ^a   Xi, Zheng Xiong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

AMN082; Cocaine; Dopamine; GABA; MGluR7; Self administration

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMN 082; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 7; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR AGONIST; N,N' DIBENZYLHYDRYLETHANE 1,2 DIAMINE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, KAINIC ACID; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS;

EID: 67349210998     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2008.236     Document Type: Article

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