Galanin Protects Against Behavioral and Neurochemical Correlates of Opiate Reward

Drugs abused by humans preferentially increase synaptic dopamine concentrations in the mesolimbic system of freely moving rats.

G. Di Chiara, Assunta Impérato · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1988 · 4.7K citations · Full text

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Regulation of a protein phosphatase cascade allows convergent dopamine and glutamate signals to activate ERK in the striatum

Emmanuel Valjent, Vincent Pascoli, Per Svenningsson et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004 · 606 citations · Full text

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Addictive and non‐addictive drugs induce distinct and specific patterns of ERK activation in mouse brain

Emmanuel Valjent, Christiane Pagès, Denis Hervé et al. · European Journal of Neuroscience · 2004 · 430 citations

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Amphetamine regulates gene expression in rat striatum via transcription factor CREB

Christine Konradi, R M Cole, Stephan Heckers et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 1994 · 355 citations · Full text

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Regulation of ERK ( Extracellular Signal Regulated Kinase), Part of the Neurotrophin Signal Transduction Cascade, in the Rat Mesolimbic Dopamine System by Chronic Exposure to Morphine or Cocaine

Melissa T. Berhow, Noboru Hiroi, Eric J. Nestler · Journal of Neuroscience · 1996 · 300 citations · Full text

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