The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Adolescent Nicotine Sensitization in a Rodent Model of Schizophrenia

Our lab has shown that neonatal treatment with quinpirole, a dopamine D2/D3 agonist, to rats resulted in an increase in dopamine D2-like receptor sensitivity that persists throughout the animal’s lifetime without a change in receptor number, consistent with schizophrenia. Approximately 80-85% of sch...

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Main Authors: Schlitt, M. A., Peterson, Daniel J., Cummins, Elizabeth D., Brown, Russell W.
Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2014
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Online Access:https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/973