Cocaine- and morphine-induced synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens

Synapse

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 309-320

  Alcantara, Adriana A ^a,b   Lim, Helen Y ^c   Floyd, Christopher E ^a   Garces, Juanita ^c   Mendenhall, John M ^a   Lyons, Chelsea L ^a   Berlanga, Monica L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Basal ganglia; Electron microscopy; Sensitization; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RELAPSE; SENSITIZATION; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; FEMALE; MORPHINE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79251572645     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20849     Document Type: Article

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