Menthol enhances nicotine reward-related behavior by potentiating nicotine-induced changes in nachr function, nachr upregulation, and DA neuron excitability

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 2285-2291

  Henderson, Brandon J ^a,b   Wall, Teagan R ^a   Henley, Beverley M ^a   Kim, Charlene H ^a   Mckinney, Sheri ^a   Lester, Henry A ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENTHOL; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REWARD; SMOKING; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; MENTHOL; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NICOTINE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REWARD; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 85025435053     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2017.72     Document Type: Article

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