Intra-accumbal administration of shRNAs against CART peptides cause increases in body weight and cocaine-induced locomotor activity in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1482, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-54

  Job, M O ^a   Licata, J ^a   Hubert, G W ^a   Kuhar, M J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight; CART; CART peptide; Cocaine; Locomotor activity; Nucleus accumbens; shRNA

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENSITY; FOOD INTAKE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEMISPHERE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA SEQUENCE; WEIGHT CHANGE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COCAINE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84867333167     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.09.005     Document Type: Article

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