Enhanced dopamine D1 and BDNF signaling in the adult dorsal striatum but not nucleus accumbens of prenatal cocaine treated mice

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Tropea, Thomas F ^a,b   Kabir, Zeeba D ^a   Kaur, Gagandeep ^c   Rajadhyaksha, Anjali M ^a   Kosofsky, Barry E ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; CREB; D1; GluA1; Nucleus accumbens; Prenatal cocaine; Striatum; TrkB

Indexed keywords

3 ALLYL 6 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; COCAINE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN DARPP 32; PHOSPHOPROTEIN GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; PHOSPHOPROTEIN MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; SERINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DORSAL STRIATUM; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84866280785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00067     Document Type: Article

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