Chronic pramipexole treatment increases tolerance for sucrose in normal and ventral tegmental lesioned rats.
The loss of dopamine neurons observed in Parkinson’s disease (PD) elicits severe motor control deficits which are reduced by the use of dopamine agonists. However, recent works have indicated that D3-preferential agonists such as pramipexole can induce impulse control disorders such as food craving...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2014.00437/full |