Effects of pharmacologic increases in brain GABA levels on cocaine- induced changes in extracellular dopamine

Synapse

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-65

  Morgan, Alexander E ^a   Dewey, Stephen L ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dopamine; GABA; Microdialysis; Nucleus accumbens; Vigabatrin; vinyl GABA

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; VIGABATRIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABUSE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 9844253326     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199801)28:1<60::AID-SYN7>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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