Maturation of silent synapses in amygdala-accumbens projection contributes to incubation of cocaine craving

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1644-1651

  Lee, Brian R ^a,b   Ma, Yao Ying ^c   Huang, Yanhua H ^c   Wang, Xiusong ^c   Otaka, Mami ^c   Ishikawa, Masago ^c   Neumann, Peter A ^c   Graziane, Nicholas M ^c   Brown, Travis E ^b   Suska, Anna ^d   Guo, Changyong ^c   Lobo, Mary Kay ^e   Sesack, Susan R ^c   Wolf, Marina E ^f   Nestler, Eric J ^e   Shaham, Yavin ^g   Schlüter, Oliver M ^d   Dong, Yan ^b,c  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 NITRO 7 SULFAMOYLBENZO[F]QUINOXALINE 2,3 DIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; COCAINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PICROTOXIN;

ADAPTATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELAPSE; SYNAPSE; TIME; TRAINING; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PICROTOXIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RHODOPSIN; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SPERMINE; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84886949612     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3533     Document Type: Article

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