Kappa opioid receptors regulate stress-induced cocaine seeking and synaptic plasticity

Neuron

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 942-954

  Graziane, Nicholas M ^a,c   Polter, Abigail M ^a   Briand, Lisa A ^b   Pierce, R Christopher ^b   Kauer, Julie A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NALTREXONE; NORBINALTORPHIMINE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; EXCITATORY SYNAPSE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITORY SYNAPSE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REINFORCEMENT; RELAPSE; STRESS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; MENTAL STRESS; MICROINJECTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICROINJECTIONS; NALTREXONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; RECURRENCE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; SYNAPSES; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876450734     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.034     Document Type: Article

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