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Chronic methamphetamine interacts with BDNF Val66Met to remodel psychosis pathways in the mesocorticolimbic proteome.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Aug 2021
Greening David W, Notaras Michael, Chen Maoshan, Xu Rong, Smith Joel D, Cheng Lesley, Simpson Richard J, Hill Andrew F, van den Buuse Maarten
Abstract excerpt
Methamphetamine (Meth) abuse has reached epidemic proportions in many countries and can induce psychotic episodes mimicking the clinical profile of schizophrenia. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is implicated in both Meth effects and schizophrenia. We therefore studied the long-term effects of chronic Meth exposure in transgenic mice engineered to harbor the human BDNFVal66Met polymorphism expressed via...
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