Changes in the levels of p-ERK, p-CREB, and c-fos in rat mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic system after morphine-induced conditioned place preference: The role of acute and subchronic stress

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 277-288

  Haghparast, Abbas ^a,b   Fatahi, Zahra ^a   Alamdary, Shabnam Zeighamy ^a   Reisi, Zahra ^c   Khodagholi, Fariba ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Iran National Science Foundation   (Iran)

^c RAFSANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

c fos; Conditioned place preference; CREB; ERK; Forced swim stress; Mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic system

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE 1; MORPHINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACUTE STRESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC STRESS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE C FOS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MORPHINE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84903372280     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: 15736830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-013-0011-z     Document Type: Article

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