Habenula cholinergic neurons regulate anxiety during nicotine withdrawal via nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 107, Issue , 2016, Pages 294-304

  Pang, Xueyan ^a   Liu, Liwang ^a   Ngolab, Jennifer ^a   Zhao Shea, Rubing ^a   McIntosh, J Michael ^b,c,d   Gardner, Paul D ^a   Tapper, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Anxiety; Habenula; Nicotine; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3BETA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA6BETA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA6;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABENULA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOKING CESSATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; HABENULA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 84962714830     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.03.039     Document Type: Article

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