Regional specificity in the real-time development of phasic dopamine transmission patterns during acquisition of a cue-cocaine association in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1889-1899

  Aragona, Brandon J ^a,c   Day, Jeremy J ^a   Roitman, Mitchell F ^a   Cleaveland, Nathan A ^a   Mark Wightman, R ^a,b   Carelli, Regina M ^a,b  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Carbon fiber microelectrode; Drug misuse; In vivo voltammetry; Neurotransmission; Reward

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; EVOKED RESPONSE; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449729440     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.07027.x     Document Type: Article

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