BDNF overexpression in the ventral tegmental area prolongs social defeat stress-induced cross-sensitization to amphetamine and increases ΔfosB expression in mesocorticolimbic regions of rats

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2286-2296

  Wang, Junshi ^a,b   Fanous, Sanya ^a,d   Terwilliger, Ernest F ^c   Bass, Caroline E ^c,e   Hammer, Ronald P ^a,b   Nikulina, Ella M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; BDNF; cross sensitization; DFosB; Social defeat; VTA

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DEXAMPHETAMINE; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DELTA FOSB;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS ALLERGY; DRUG RECHALLENGE; DRUG SENSITIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS; SOCIAL STRESS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ADENOVIRIDAE; AGGRESSION; AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM SENSITIZATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84884291981     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.130     Document Type: Article

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