Incubation of methamphetamine craving is associated with selective increases in expression of Bdnf and Trkb, glutamate receptors, and epigenetic enzymes in cue-activated fos-expressing dorsal striatal neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 8232-8244

  Li, Xuan ^a   Rubio, F Javier ^a   Zeric, Tamara ^a   Bossert, Jennifer M ^a   Kambhampati, Sarita ^a   Cates, Hannah M ^b   Kennedy, Pamela J ^c   Liu, Qing Rong ^a   Cimbro, Raffaello ^d   Hope, Bruce T ^a   Nestler, Eric J ^b   Shaham, Yavin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal striatum; Epigenetics; FACS; Glutamate; Methamphetamine; Relapse

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; 8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE 3ALPHA; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 3; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 3; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 4; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 5; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1; METHAMPHETAMINE; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL STRIATUM; DORSOMEDIAL STRIATUM; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; EPIGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELF ADMINISTRATION TEST; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; CRAVING; CUES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84930268125     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1022-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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