Effects of nicotine and mecamylamine-induced withdrawal on extracellular dopamine and acetylcholine in the rat nucleus accumbens

Drugs abused by humans preferentially increase synaptic dopamine concentrations in the mesolimbic system of freely moving rats.

G. Di Chiara, Assunta Impérato · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1988 · 4.7K citations · Full text

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Specificity in the projection patterns of accumbal core and shell in the rat

Lennart Heimer, Daniel S. Zahm, L. Churchill et al. · Neuroscience · 1991 · 1.2K citations

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Effects of nicotine on the nucleus accumbens and similarity to those of addictive drugs

Francesco E. Pontieri, Gianluigi Tanda, Francesco Orzi et al. · Nature · 1996 · 1.1K citations

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Food reward and cocaine increase extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens as measured by microdialysis

Luis Hernandez, Bartley G. Hoebel · Life Sciences · 1988 · 624 citations

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Systemic nicotine‐induced dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens is regulated by nicotinic receptors in the ventral tegmental area

Magnus Nisell, George G. Nomikos, Torgny H. Svensson · Synapse · 1994 · 520 citations

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