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Involvement of cholecystokinin within craving for cocaine: role of cholecystokinin receptor ligands.
Expert opinion on investigational drugs - 1 Oct 2000
Crespi F, Corsi M, Reggiani A, Ratti E, Gaviraghi G
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In the brain, cholecystokinin (CCK) has been described to act as a central neurotransmitter or neuromodulator involved in functions such as food consumption, stress and anxiety. Recently, the CCK system has been involved in drug dependence phenomena and proposed to be correlated to a putative state of 'drug preferring' phenotype within free choice tests. CCK exerts its action in the CNS through at least two...
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