Estradiol in the Preoptic Area Regulates the Dopaminergic Response to Cocaine in the Nucleus Accumbens

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1897-1906

  Tobiansky, Daniel J ^a   Will, Ryan G ^a   Lominac, Kevin D ^a   Turner, Jonathan M ^a   Hattori, Tomoko ^a   Krishnan, Krittika ^a   Martz, Julia R ^a   Nutsch, Victoria L ^a   Dominguez, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; 2-HYDROXY-4,4'-DIAMIDINOSTILBENE, METHANESULFONATE SALT; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ENOLASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GPER PROTEIN, HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID; STILBAMIDINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROINJECTION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; INJURIES; METABOLISM; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPTIC AREA; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME FACTOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; ESTRADIOL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; MICRODIALYSIS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OVARIECTOMY; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; STILBAMIDINES; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84953203946     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.360     Document Type: Article

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