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Protracted 'anti-addictive' effects of adolescent phenylpropanolamine exposure in C57BL/6J mice.
Addiction biology - 1 Sept 2008
Penzner Jeffery H, Thompson Daria L, Arth Cory, Fowler Jaclyn K, Ary Alexis W, Szumlinski Karen K
Abstract excerpt
Exposure to the once highly prevalent over-the-counter (OTC) sympathomimetic phenylpropanolamine (PPA; +/--norephedrine) during pre-adolescence alters the developmental trajectory of catecholamine and amino acid neurotransmitter systems in the nucleus accumbens (NAC) that culminate in a 'pro-addictive' phenotype in adulthood. Thus, the present study sought to extend these earlier data by examining the long-term...
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