Estradiol replacement enhances cocaine-stimulated locomotion in female C57BL/6 mice through estrogen receptor alpha

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2013, Pages 236-249

  Van Swearingen, Amanda E D ^a   Sanchez, Cristina L ^a,b   Frisbee, Suzanne M ^a   Williams, Antonia ^a   Walker, Q David ^a   Korach, Kenneth S ^c   Kuhn, Cynthia M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cocaine; Dopamine; Estradiol; Mice; Ovariectomy

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; SESAME SEED OIL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LOCOMOTION; MOBILIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REARING; REINFORCEMENT; STEREOTYPY; UTERUS WEIGHT;

EID: 84884854523     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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