The medial preoptic area modulates cocaine-induced activity in female rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 293-302

  Tobiansky, Daniel J ^a   Roma, Peter G ^a,b   Hattori, Tomoko ^a   Will, Ryan G ^a   Nutsch, Victoria L ^a   Dominguez, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Institutes for Behavior Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cocaine; Dopamine; Medial preoptic area; Reward

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INNERVATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; REWARD;

EID: 84876035041     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031949     Document Type: Article

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