Electroacupuncture treatment reverses morphine-induced physiological changes in dopaminergic neurons within the ventral tegmental area

Addiction Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 431-437

  Hu, Ling ^a,b,c,d   Chu, Ning Ning ^a,b,c,d   Sun, Lin Lin ^a,b,c,d   Zhang, Rong ^a,b,c,d   Han, Ji Sheng ^a,b,c,d   Cui, Cai Lian ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^e NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference (CPP); Dopamine neurons; Electroacupuncture (EA); Extracellular recording morphine; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MORPHINE ADDICTION; NONHUMAN; OPIATE ADDICTION; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MALE; MORPHINE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 70049087811     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2009.00163.x     Document Type: Article

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