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Locomotor conditioning by amphetamine requires cyclin-dependent kinase 5 signaling in the nucleus accumbens.
Neuropharmacology - 1 Oct 2014
Singer Bryan F, Neugebauer Nichole M, Forneris Justin, Rodvelt Kelli R, Li Dongdong, Bubula Nancy, Vezina Paul
Abstract excerpt
Intermittent systemic exposure to psychostimulants leads to several forms of long-lasting behavioral plasticity including nonassociative sensitization and associative conditioning. In the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), the protein serine/threonine kinase cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) and its phosphorylation target, the guanine-nucleotide exchange factor kalirin-7 (Kal7), may contribute to the neuroadaptations...
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