Strengthening the accumbal indirect pathway promotes resilience to compulsive cocaine use

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 632-638

  Bock, Roland ^a   Hoon Shin, J ^a   Kaplan, Alanna R ^a   Dobi, Alice ^a   Markey, Eric ^a   Kramer, Paul F ^a   Gremel, Christina M ^a   Christensen, Christine H ^a   Adrover, Martin F ^a   Alvarez, Veronica A ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLOZAPINE; COCAINE; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; REWARD; RHODOPSIN; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876916994     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3369     Document Type: Article

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