Epigenetic modulation at the CCR2 gene correlates with the maintenance of behavioral sensitization to methamphetamine

Addiction Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 358-361

  Ikegami, Daigo ^a   Narita, Minoru ^a   Imai, Satoshi ^a   Miyashita, Kazuhiko ^a   Tamura, Rie ^a   Narita, Michiko ^a   Takagi, Shigemi ^a   Yokomizo, Akiko ^a   Takeshima, Hideyuki ^b   Ando, Takayuki ^b   Igarashi, Katsuhide ^c   Kanno, Jun ^c   Kuzumaki, Naoko ^a   Ushijima, Toshikazu ^b   Suzuki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a HOSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

CCR2; Drug abuse; Epigenetics; Histone modification; Methamphetamine; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; HISTONE H3; MESSENGER RNA; METHAMPHETAMINE; CCR2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG SENSITIZATION; FOREBRAIN; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC REGULATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CCR2; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77953176568     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2010.00219.x     Document Type: Article

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