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Kappa Opioid Receptor Activation Disrupts Prepulse Inhibition of the Acoustic Startle in Rats

Marco Bortolato, Gian Nicola Aru, Roberto Frau, Marco Orrù, Mauro Fà, Mario Manunta, Mara Puddu, Giampaolo Mereu, Gian Luigi Gessa

Biological Psychiatry · 2005 · 40 citations · 55 references

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David Braff, C. Stone, Enoch Callaway et al. · Psychophysiology · 1978 · 1.2K citations

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Frances K. Graham · Psychophysiology · 1975 · 1.1K citations

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Opposing tonically active endogenous opioid systems modulate the mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway.

Rainer Spanagel, A. Herz, Toni S. Shippenberg · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1992 · 1K citations

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Opposite effects of mu and kappa opiate agonists on dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens and in the dorsal caudate of freely moving rats.

G. Di Chiara, Assunta Impérato · Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics · 1988 · 922 citations

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Mu, delta, and kappa opioid receptor mRNA expression in the rat CNS: An in situ hybridization study

Alfred Mansour, Charles A. Fox, Sharon Burke et al. · The Journal of Comparative Neurology · 1994 · 868 citations · Full text

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