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A single exposure to novelty differentially affects the accumbal dopaminergic system of apomorphine-susceptible and apomorphine-unsusceptible rats.
Life sciences - 4 Feb 2005
van der Elst Martine C J, Verheij Michel M M, Roubos Eric W, Ellenbroek Bart A, Veening Jan G, Cools Alexander R
Abstract excerpt
Individual differences in responses to mild, acute stressors in laboratory animals have commonly been observed in behavioural tests and at the level of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses. These differences are associated with dopamine transmission in the nucleus accumbens. Although the effect of mild stressors on dopamine transmission has been studied with microdialysis, it has not been studied at the...
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