Association between striatal accumulation of FosB/ΔFosB and long-term psychomotor sensitization to amphetamine in mice depends on the genetic background

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 155-164

  Conversi, D ^a,b   Orsini, C ^a,b   Colelli, V ^a   Cruciani, F ^a   Cabib, S ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Addiction; Behavioral sensitization; Genetic models; Psychostimulants; Ventromedial striatum

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DELTA FOSB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INBRED STRAIN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; STRIATE CORTEX;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78149339374     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.10.016     Document Type: Article

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