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T Seppä1, M Ruotsalainen, I Laakso
1Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Pharmacy, P.O. Box 56, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
Abstract:
1. The effect of ambient temperature on the nicotine-induced (0.3, 0.5 or 0.8 mg kg(-1) s.c.) changes of the striatal concentrations of dopamine (DA) and its metabolites 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and homovanillic acid (HVA) was studied in freely-moving rats by in vivo microdialysis. 2. At the ambient temperature of 30 - 33 degrees C, but not at 20 - 23 degrees C, nicotine doses of 0.5 (P<0. 01) and 0.8 mg kg(-1) (P<0.05) significantly increased the extracellular DA concentration. The nicotine doses of 0.5 and 0.8 mg kg(-1) increased the DA metabolite levels similarly at both ambient temperatures studied (P
