Integrating synaptic plasticity and striatal circuit function in addiction

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 545-551

  Grueter, Brad A ^a   Rothwell, Patrick E ^a   Malenka, Robert C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; COCAINE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DYNAMIN; HISTONE H3; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN HOMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

CELL STRUCTURE; CONDITIONING; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC SPINE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HABITUATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; STRIATE CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84863496033     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.09.009     Document Type: Review

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