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Stress-Induced Reinstatement of Drug Seeking: 20 Years of Progress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In human addicts, drug relapse and craving are often provoked by stress. Since 1995, this clinical scenario has been studied using a rat model of stress-induced reinstatement of drug seeking.
A Cippitelli   +291 more
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Endogenous dynorphin protects against neurotoxin-elicited nigrostriatal dopaminergic neuron damage and motor deficits in mice

open access: yesJournal of Neuroinflammation, 2012
Background The striato-nigral projecting pathway contains the highest concentrations of dynorphin in the brain. The functional role of this opioid peptide in the regulation of mesencephalic dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons is not clear.
Wang Qingshan   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the G-protein-coupled receptor heteromers and their allosteric receptor-receptor interactions in the central nervous system: focus on their role in pain modulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The modulatory role of allosteric receptor-receptor interactions in the pain pathways of the Central Nervous System and the peripheral nociceptors has become of increasing interest.
Agnati, Luigi F   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Viral risk factor for seizures: Pathobiology of dynorphin in herpes simplex viral (HSV-1) seizures in an animal model

open access: yesNeurobiology of Disease, 2006
Up to 89% of patients with herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) encephalitis can have seizures. Possibly, viruses are environmental triggers for seizures in genetically vulnerable individuals. Inherited dynorphin promoter polymorphisms are associated with
Marylou V. Solbrig   +3 more
doaj  

Acetaldehyde involvement in ethanol's postabsortive effects during early ontogeny [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Clinical and biomedical studies sustains the notion that early ontogeny is a vulnerable window to the impact of alcohol. Experiences with the drug during these stages increase latter disposition to prefer, use or abuse ethanol.
Abate, Paula   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Dissecting the Roles of GABA and Neuropeptides from Rat Central Amygdala CRF Neurons in Anxiety and Fear Learning

open access: yesCell Reports, 2019
Summary: Central amygdala (CeA) neurons that produce corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) regulate anxiety and fear learning. These CeACRF neurons release GABA and several neuropeptides predicted to play important yet opposing roles in these behaviors ...
Matthew B. Pomrenze   +5 more
doaj  

Does the kappa opioid receptor system contribute to pain aversion?

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2014
The kappa opioid receptor (KOR) and the endogenous peptide-ligand dynorphin have received significant attention due the involvement in mediating a variety of behavioral and neurophysiological responses, including opposing the rewarding properties of ...
Catherine M Cahill   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Progesterone increases dynorphin a concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid and preprodynorphin messenger ribonucleic Acid levels in a subset of dynorphin neurons in the sheep.

open access: yesEndocrinology, 2005
Recent studies suggest that the endogenous opioid peptide, dynorphin, is an important mediator of progesterone negative feedback on GnRH pulse frequency in the ewe.
C. Foradori   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Design and development of novel, short, stable dynorphin-based opioid agonists for safer analgesic therapy

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2023
Kappa opioid receptors have exceptional potential as an analgesic target, seemingly devoid of many problematic Mu receptor side-effects. Kappa-selective, small molecule pharmaceutical agents have been developed, but centrally mediated side-effects limit ...
Rink-Jan Lohman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular mechanisms underlying increased PDYN and dynorphin expression in the prefrontal cortex of alcoholic men [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Alcohol dependence is a chronic relapsing disorder caused by drug x gene x environment interactions for which pharmacotherapy is but moderately effective.
Henriksson, Richard
core   +1 more source

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