Effect of acupuncture on contents of tyrosine hydroxylase and glial fibrillary acidic protein in ventral tegmental area of heroin self-administrating rats

Contrasting effects of repeated treatmen

Contrasting effects of repeated treatment vs. withdrawal of methamphetamine on tyrosine hydroxylase messenger RNA levels in the ventral tegmental area and substantia nigra zona compacta of the rat brain

✍ Yong Zhang; Jesus A. Angulo 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 653 KB

We have assessed the effect of repeated treatment with methamphetamine (METH) on the abundance of the messenger ribonucleic acid molecules encoding the enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and preprochoIecystokinin (PPCCK) in the substantia nigra zona compacta (SNc) and the ventral tegmental area (VTA)