Synapse density and dendritic complexity are reduced in the prefrontal cortex following seven days of forced abstinence from cocaine self-administration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Rasakham, Khampaseuth ^a   Schmidt, Heath D ^b   Kay, Kevin ^a   Huizenga, Megan N ^a   Calcagno, Narghes ^a   Christopher Pierce, R ^b   Spires Jones, Tara L ^a,c   Sadri Vakili, Ghazaleh ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COCAINE;

ABSTINENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SURVIVAL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GOLGI STAIN; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DENDRITES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905015297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102524     Document Type: Article

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