Disparity between tonic and phasic ethanol-induced dopamine increases in the nucleus accumbens of rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1187-1196

  Robinson, Donita L ^a,c   Howard, Elaina C ^a,b   McConnell, Scott ^a   Gonzales, Rueben A ^a,b   Wightman, R Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Ethanol; Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry; Microdialysis; Phasic

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; ELECTRODE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RECORDING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 67650685039     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.00942.x     Document Type: Article

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