Article
Acute and chronic amphetamine treatments differently regulate neuropeptide messenger RNA levels and Fos immunoreactivity in rat striatal neurons.
Neuroscience - 1 Apr 1995
Jaber M, Cador M, Dumartin B, Normand E, Stinus L, Bloch B
Abstract excerpt
Repeated administration of amphetamine results in the well known phenomenon of reverse tolerance or sensitization. However, little is known about cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying acute versus chronic response to amphetamine. In this paper, we investigated the effects of acute (1.5 or...
Topics
- Amphetamine
- Animals
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- Male
- Motor Activity
- Neostriatum
- Neurons
- Neuropeptides
- Phenotype
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos
- RNA, Messenger
