Cue-elicited drug craving represses ERK activation in mice prefrontal association cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 448, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-104

  Li, Tao ^a,b   Yan, Chun xia ^a,b   Hou, Ying ^c   Cao, Wei ^c   Chen, Teng ^a,b   Zhu, Bo feng ^a,b   Li, Sheng bing ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ministry of Health for Forensic Sciences   (China)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accumbens nucleus; Caudate putamen; Conditioned place preference (CPP); Extracellular signal regulated protein kinase1 2 (ERK1 2); Frontal association cortex; Morphine

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MORPHINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REWARD; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; REWARD;

EID: 55549089963     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.10.033     Document Type: Article

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