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Drug of abuse that acts by increasing extraneuronal dopamine in midbrain. Thought to displace dopamine in synaptic vesicles, leading to increased synaptic levels.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(22 Feb 2008)
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