Activation of mGluR7s inhibits cocaine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior by a nucleus accumbens glutamate-mGluR2/3 mechanism in rats

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1368-1380

  Li, Xia ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Gardner, Eliot L ^a   Xi, Zheng Xiong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

AMN082; cocaine; dopamine; glutamate; mGluR7; reinstatement; relapse

Indexed keywords

6 (4 METHOXYPHENYL) 5 METHYL 3 (4 PYRIDINYL)ISOXAZOLO[4,5 C]PYRIDIN 4(5H) ONE; AMN 082; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LY 341497; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 2; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 3; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 7; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR AGONIST; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELAPSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; COCAINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 77955148819     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.06851.x     Document Type: Article

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