Dopaminergic and GABA-ergic markers of impulsivity in rats: Evidence for anatomical localisation in ventral striatum and prefrontal cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1519-1528

  Jupp, Bianca ^a,b,c   Caprioli, Daniele ^a,b   Saigal, Niel ^a,b   Reverte, Ingrid ^d   Shrestha, Saurav ^e   Cumming, Paul ^f   Everitt, Barry J ^a,b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a,b   Dalley, Jeffrey W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoradiography; Dopamine; GABA; Nucleus accumbens; Opioid; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMPULSIVENESS; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REACTION TIME; RECEPTOR BINDING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; LIGANDS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84877616049     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12146     Document Type: Article

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