The rewarding action of acute cocaine is reduced in β-endorphin deficient but not in μ opioid receptor knockout mice

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 686, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 50-54

  Nguyen, Alexander T ^a   Marquez, Paul ^a   Hamid, Abdul ^a,b   Kieffer, Brigitte ^c   Friedman, Theodore C ^b   Lutfy, Kabirullah ^a,b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

endorphin opioid receptor system; FNA; Cocaine; Conditioned place preference (CPP); Knockout mouse; Morphine

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; BETA FUNALTREXAMINE; COCAINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REWARD;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BETA-ENDORPHIN; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; REWARD;

EID: 84861651720     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: 18790712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2012.04.040     Document Type: Article

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