Cocaine Self-Administration and Extinction Leads to Reduced Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Expression and Morphometric Features of Astrocytes in the Nucleus Accumbens Core

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 207-215

  Scofield, Michael D ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Siemsen, Benjamin M ^a   Healey, Kati L ^b   Tran, Phuong K ^a   Woronoff, Nicholas ^b   Boger, Heather A ^a   Kalivas, Peter W ^a   Reissner, Kathryn J ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Cocaine; Colocalization; GFAP; Nucleus accumbens; Self administration

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CEFTRIAXONE; COCAINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE LCK; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYNAPSIN I; SYNAPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MORPHOMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS CORE; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE AREA; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COUNT; DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ASTROCYTES; CEFTRIAXONE; CELL COUNT; COCAINE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPSINS;

EID: 84959422644     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.12.022     Document Type: Article

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