Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 58, Issue 1 , Pages 93-102 , 1 February 2000

Dissociation of physical abstinence signs from changes in extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and in the prefrontal cortex of nicotine dependent rats

Received 28 July 1998 ,Revised 13 April 1999 ,Accepted 8 June 1999.

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