The role of beta-endorphin in the acute motor stimulatory and rewarding actions of cocaine in mice

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 443-448

  Marquez, Paul ^a   Baliram, Ramkumarie ^a,b   Dabaja, Ibrahim ^a   Gajawada, Nagaraju ^a   Lutfy, Kabirullah ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta Endorphin; Cocaine; Conditioned place preference; Knockout mouse; Morphine; Motor activity; Proopiomelanocortin; Reward

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; COCAINE; MORPHINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECORDING; REWARD; STIMULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BETA-ENDORPHIN; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CROSSES, GENETIC; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MORPHINE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 43149096292     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-007-1053-z     Document Type: Article

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