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Augmented responses to morphine and cocaine in mice with a 12-lipoxygenase gene disruption.
Psychopharmacology - 1 Nov 2003
Walters Carrie L, Wang Bao-Cheng, Godfrey Misty, Sun Duxin, Funk Colin D, Blendy Julie A
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RATIONALE: Recent studies have shown that pharmacological inhibition of the 12-lipoxygenase pathway selectively blocks opioid inhibition of GABAergic synaptic currents. A similar mechanism has been shown for the regulation of glutamate release in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) during acute withdrawal from morphine, although the functional significance of these effects in vivo are not known. OBJECTIVES: We have...
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