Involvement of nucleus accumbens in L-arginine-induced conditioned place preference in rats

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 473-480

  Sahraei, H ^a   Pirzadeh Jahromi, G ^a   Noorbakhshnia, M ^b   Asgari, A ^a   Haeri Rohani, A ^b   Khoshbaten, A ^a   Poorheidari, Gh R ^a   Sepehri, H ^b   Ghoshooni, H ^a   Zarrindast, M R ^c,d  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference; L arginine; L NAME; Nitric oxide (NO); Nucleus accumbens; Rat; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 8344264633     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008877-200411000-00003     Document Type: Article

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