Nicotine withdrawal upregulates nitrergic and galaninergic activity in the rat dorsal raphe nucleus and locus coeruleus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 536, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-34

  Okere, Chuma O ^a   Waterhouse, Barry D ^b  

^a CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal raphe nucleus; Galanin; Locus coeruleus; Nicotine; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; NICOTINE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; GALANIN; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NICOTINE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84873717369     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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