Enhanced CREB and DARPP-32 phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens and CREB, ERK, and GluR1 phosphorylation in the dorsal hippocampus is associated with cocaine-conditioned place preference behavior

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1780-1790

  Tropea, Thomas F ^a,b   Kosofsky, Barry E ^a   Rajadhyaksha, Anjali M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Cocaine conditioned place preference; Cyclic AMP response element binding protein; Dopamine and cyclic AMP regulated phosphoprotein 32; Dorsal hippocampus; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN DARPP 32; SERINE; THREONINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REWARD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DOPAMINE AND CAMP-REGULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN 32; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, AMPA; TELENCEPHALON;

MUS;

EID: 48749097552     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2008.05518.x     Document Type: Article

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