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. 1990 Jan 22;507(2):344-6.
doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(90)90295-m.

Enhanced extracellular dopamine level may be the fundamental neuropharmacological basis of cross-behavioral sensitization between methamphetamine and cocaine--an in vivo dialysis study in freely moving rats

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Enhanced extracellular dopamine level may be the fundamental neuropharmacological basis of cross-behavioral sensitization between methamphetamine and cocaine--an in vivo dialysis study in freely moving rats

K Akimoto et al. Brain Res. .

Abstract

Intracerebral dialysis was used to study the mechanism underlying cross-behavioral sensitization between methamphetamine (MAP) and cocaine. The challenge injection of cocaine caused a significantly greater increase in striatal perfusate dopamine (DA) levels in MAP-pretreated rats than in saline-pretreated rats. Similarly, the challenge injection of MAP caused a significantly greater increase in extracellular DA levels in cocaine-pretreated rats than in control rats. These results suggest that an enhancement in striatal DA efflux may play an important role in cross-behavioral sensitization between MAP and cocaine.

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