Persistent pain maintains morphine-seeking behavior after morphine withdrawal through reduced MeCP2 repression of glua1 in rat central amygdala

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3689-3700

  Hou, Yuan Yuan ^a   Cai, You Qing ^a   Pan, Zhizhong Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; AMPA receptor; Epigenetic; Opioid withdrawal; Pain; Transcription repression

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; FREUND ADJUVANT; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; MORPHINE; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 1; MECP2 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXPERIMENTAL PAIN TEST; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHINE ADDICTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; WISTAR RAT; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MORPHINE; MORPHINE DEPENDENCE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84923366811     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3453-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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