Knockdown of CRF1 receptors in the ventral tegmental area attenuates cue- and acute food deprivation stress-induced cocaine seeking in mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 11560-11570

  Chen, Nicola A ^a   Jupp, Bianca ^a   Sztainberg, Yehezkel ^b   Lebow, Maya ^b   Brown, Robyn M ^a   Kim, Jee Hyun ^a   Chen, Alon ^b,c   Lawrence, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Cue; Mouse; Relapse; Stress; VTA

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

COCAINE; CUE; MOUSE; RELAPSE; STRESS; VTA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REWARD; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84906568749     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4763-12.2014     Document Type: Article

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