Varenicline increases striatal dopamine D2/3 receptor binding in rats

Addiction Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 500-502

  Crunelle, Cleo L ^a   Miller, Michelle L ^a   De Bruin, Kora ^a   Van Den Brink, Wim ^a   Booij, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

123I IB2M storage phosphor imaging; Dopamine receptor; Drug partial agonism; Nicotric receptor 4 2; Striatum; Varenicline

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; IODINE 123; N [(1 ETHYL 2 PYRROLIDINYL)METHYL] 3 IODO 6 METHOXYSALICYLAMIDE; NICOTINE; PLACEBO; TRACER; VARENICLINE;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

ANIMALS; BENZAMIDES; BENZAZEPINES; BINDING SITES; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PYRROLIDINES; QUINOXALINES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D3;

EID: 70049092450     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2009.00168.x     Document Type: Article

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