Cross-sensitization between cocaine and acute restraint stress is associated with sensitized dopamine but not glutamate release in the nucleus accumbens

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 982-995

  Garcia Keller, C ^a   Martinez, S A ^a   Esparza, M A ^a   Bollati, F ^a   Kalivas, P W ^b   Cancela, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA receptor surface expression; Locomotor activity; Microdialysis; Nucleus accumbens core and shell; Psychostimulant and stress

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE RELEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSITIZATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM SENSITIZATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMIC ACID; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84875366554     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12121     Document Type: Article

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