μ-Opioid receptors in the stimulation of mesolimbic dopamine activity by ethanol and morphine in Long-Evans rats: A delayed effect of ethanol

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 389-400

  Valenta, John P ^a   Job, Martin O ^a   Mangieri, Regina A ^a   Schier, Christina J ^a   Howard, Elaina C ^a   Gonzales, Rueben A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

FNA; Addiction biology; Alcohol; BFNA; Fused silica microinjection; Microdialysis; Morphine; Naltrexone; Nucleus accumbens shell; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BETA FUNALTREXAMINE; CALCIUM ION; MORPHINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NALTREXONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; HISTOLOGY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; TIME FACTORS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84880272693     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3041-9     Document Type: Article

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