Post-pubertal emergence of a dopamine phenotype in netrin-1 receptor-deficient mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1318-1328

  Grant, Alanna ^a   Speed, Zoe ^a   Labelle Dumais, Cassandre ^a   Flores, Cecilia ^a  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Deleted in colorectal cancer; Prefrontal cortex; Psychostimulants; UNC5

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE; NETRIN 1; NETRIN 1 RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

AGING; AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 70350464511     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06919.x     Document Type: Article

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