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Nucleus accumbensVentral tegmental areaAmphetamineSensitizationMorphineBehavioral sensitizationPharmacologyNeuroscienceLocomotor activityConditioned place preferenceDextroamphetaminePsychologyDopamineAnesthesiaMedicineDopaminergic
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- 1990
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- article
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- 516
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 99-106
- Citations
- 254
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Paul Vezina,
Jane Stewart
(1990).
Amphetamine administered to the ventral tegmental area but not to the nucleus accumbens sensitizes rats to systemic morphine: lack of conditioned effects.
Brain Research
, 516
(1)
, 99-106.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-8993(90)90902-n
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- 10.1016/0006-8993(90)90902-n