Effects of fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibition on neuronal responses to nicotine, cocaine and morphine in the nucleus accumbens shell and ventral tegmental area: Involvement of PPAR-α nuclear receptors

Addiction Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 277-288

  Luchicchi, Antonio ^a   Lecca, Salvatore ^a   Carta, Stefano ^a   Pillolla, Giuliano ^a   Muntoni, Anna L ^a   Yasar, Sevil ^b   Goldberg, Steven R ^c   Pistis, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Dopamine neurons; Electrophysiology; Nicotine; Nucleus accumbens; Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor

Indexed keywords

ANANDAMIDE; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; COCAINE; CYCLOHEXYLCARBAMIC ACID 3' CARBAMOYLBIPHENYL 3 YL ESTER; DOPAMINE; FATTY ACID AMIDASE; MORPHINE; N OLEOYLETHANOLAMINE; NICOTINE; PALMIDROL; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; AMIDASE; BENZAMIDE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CELL RECEPTOR; CYCLOHEXYL CARBAMIC ACID 3'-CARBAMOYLBIPHENYL-3-YL ESTER; FATTY-ACID AMIDE HYDROLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; RELAPSE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DRUG EFFECTS; EVOKED RESPONSE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; REWARD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; BENZAMIDES; CARBAMATES; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MORPHINE; NEURONS; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PPAR ALPHA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 77953207747     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2010.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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