Cocaine must enter the brain to evoke unconditioned dopamine release within the nucleus accumbens shell

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 504, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-17

  Porter Stransky, Kirsten A ^a   Wescott, Seth A ^a   Hershman, Molly ^a   Badrinarayan, Aneesha ^a   Vander Weele, Caitlin M ^a   Lovic, Vedran ^a   Aragona, Brandon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dopamine; Fast scan cyclic voltammetry; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE RELEASE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 80053446257     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.08.028     Document Type: Article

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