Ethanol and nicotine interaction within the posterior ventral tegmental area in male and female alcohol-preferring rats: Evidence of synergy and differential gene activation in the nucleus accumbens shell

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 639-649

  Truitt, William A ^a   Hauser, Sheketha R ^a   Deehan, Gerald A ^a   Toalston, Jamie E ^a   Wilden, Jessica A ^a   Bell, Richard L ^a   McBride, William J ^a   Rodd, Zachary A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse; Accumbens; BDNF; GDNF; Gene expression; Reward; VTA

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NICOTINE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; SLC17A7 PROTEIN, RAT;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTERIOR VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SELF ADMINISTRATION TEST; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; RANDOMIZATION;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DRUG SYNERGISM; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MALE; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1;

EID: 84921646336     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-014-3702-3     Document Type: Article

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