Androgen influence on prefrontal dopamine systems in adult male rats: Localization of cognate intracellular receptors in medial prefrontal projections to the ventral tegmental area and effects of gonadectomy and hormone replacement on glutamate-stimulated extracellular dopamine level

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1799-1812

  Aubele, T ^a,b,c   Kritzer, M F ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA; immunohistochemistry; microdialysis; NMDA; schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORCHIECTOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN;

EID: 84863673222     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr258     Document Type: Article

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