Rueben A. Gonzales

Effect of gender and estrous cycle on the pharmacokinetics of ethanol in the rat brain.

Characterization of probe and tissue factors that influence interpretation of quantitative microdialysis experiments for dopamine.

Ethanol increases extracellular dopamine concentration in the ventral striatum in C57BL/6 mice.

Dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens during consummatory phases of oral ethanol self-administration.

The role of mesolimbic dopamine in the development and maintenance of ethanol reinforcement.

Accumbal dopamine concentration during operant self-administration of a sucrose or a novel sucrose with ethanol solution.

Effect of operant self-administration of 10% ethanol plus 10% sucrose on dopamine and ethanol concentrations in the nucleus accumbens.

Repeated ethanol intoxication induces behavioral sensitization in the absence of a sensitized accumbens dopamine response in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice.

Reduced basal and ethanol stimulation of striatal extracellular dopamine concentrations in dopamine D2 receptor knockout mice.

Kappa-opioid receptor modulation of accumbal dopamine concentration during operant ethanol self-administration.

Mu (mu) opioid receptor regulation of ethanol-induced dopamine response in the ventral striatum: evidence of genotype specific sexual dimorphic epistasis.

Ethanol preference is inversely correlated with ethanol-induced dopamine release in 2 substrains of C57BL/6 mice.

A 3-day exposure to 10% ethanol with 10% sucrose successfully initiates ethanol self-administration.

Role of 5-hydroxytryptamine2C receptors in Ca2+-dependent ethanol potentiation of GABA release onto ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons.

Disparity between tonic and phasic ethanol-induced dopamine increases in the nucleus accumbens of rats.

The dopamine response in the nucleus accumbens core-shell border differs from that in the core and shell during operant ethanol self-administration.

The μ opioid receptor is not involved in ethanol-stimulated dopamine release in the ventral striatum of C57BL/6J mice.

A single exposure to voluntary ethanol self-administration produces adaptations in ethanol consumption and accumbal dopamine signaling.

Ethanol seeking by long evans rats is not always a goal-directed behavior.