Glutamate Transmission and Addiction to Cocaine

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1003, Issue , 2003, Pages 169-175

  Kalivas, Peter W ^a,b   McFarland, Krista ^a   Bowers, Scott ^a   Szumlinski, Karen ^a   Xi, Zheng Xiong ^a   Baker, David ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Cystine glutamate exchange; G protein; Glutamate; mGluR; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Reinstatement

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CYSTINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HOMER 1 PROTEIN; HOMER 2 PROTEIN; INHIBITORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIOR; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATION; EXPOSURE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INJECTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RELAPSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; SYNAPSE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0347091928     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1300.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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