Neural plasticity and addiction: PI3-kinase and cocaine behavioral sensitization (original) (raw)

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Drug addiction has been linked to protracted functional changes in neural circuits involved in motivation that can lead to drug dependence, craving and relapse1. Here we investigated the role of the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K) signal transduction pathway in long-lasting behavioral sensitization to cocaine in rats, an animal model of the long-lasting functional changes induced by repeated drug use2. Our results show that PI3K is required for the expression, but not the induction, of behavioral sensitization to cocaine.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by NIH grants DA13821 and MH62140 (P.P.S.), DA08467 (F.W.) and DA04398 (G.F.K.), and a grant from the Patterson Trust (P.P.S.).

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  1. Emanuela Izzo and Rémi Martin-Fardon: The first two authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., CVN12, La Jolla, 92103, California, USA
    Emanuela Izzo, Rémi Martin-Fardon, George F. Koob, Friedbert Weiss & Pietro Paolo Sanna

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Izzo, E., Martin-Fardon, R., Koob, G. et al. Neural plasticity and addiction: PI3-kinase and cocaine behavioral sensitization.Nat Neurosci 5, 1263–1264 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn977

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