ReviewGenes, brain, and behavior2017
Do specific NMDA receptor subunits act as gateways for addictive behaviors?
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- Modulation of glycine transporters as a novel therapeutic strategy in neuropsychiatry.Psychopharmacology · 2026Review
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- Neuropharmacology of Alcohol Addiction with Special Emphasis on Proteomic Approaches for Identification of Novel Therapeutic Targets.Current neuropharmacology · 2023Article
- Modeling Aversion Resistant Alcohol Intake in Indiana Alcohol-Preferring (P) Rats.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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- The Effects of Poria cocos on Rho Signaling-Induced Regulation of Mobility and F-Actin Aggregation in MK-801-Treated B35 and C6 Cells.Behavioural neurology · 2022Article
- Effect of ketamine on binge drinking patterns in crossed high alcohol-preferring (cHAP) mice.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2021Article
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- Effectiveness of N-acetylcysteine in Treating Clinical Symptoms of Substance Abuse and Dependence: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Differential importance of nucleus accumbens Ox1Rs and AMPARs for female and male mouse binge alcohol drinking.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Gabapentinoid Benefit and Risk Stratification: Mechanisms Over Myth.Pain and therapy · 2020Review
- Behavioral indicators of succeeding and failing under higher-challenge compulsion-like alcohol drinking in rat.Behavioural brain research · 2020Article
- SIRT1 accelerates the progression of activity-based anorexia.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Functional Consequences of Calcium-Dependent Synapse-to-Nucleus Communication: Focus on Transcription-Dependent Metabolic Plasticity.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2020Review
- Ifenprodil Attenuates Methamphetamine-Induced Behavioral Sensitization Through the GluN2B-PP2A-AKT Cascade in the Dorsal Striatum of Mice.Neurochemical research · 2020Article
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Abstract
Addiction to alcohol and drugs is a major social and economic problem, and there is considerable interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms that promote addictive drives. A number of proteins have been identified that contribute to expression of addictive behaviors. NMDA receptors (NMDARs), a subclass of ionotropic glutamate receptors, have been of particular interest because their physiological properties make them an attractive candidate for gating induction of synaptic plasticity, a molecular change thought to mediate learning and memory. NMDARs are generally inactive at the hyperpolarized resting potentials of many neurons. However, given sufficient depolarization, NMDARs are activated and exhibit long-lasting currents with significant calcium permeability. Also, in addition to stimulating neurons by direct depolarization, NMDARs and their calcium signaling can allow strong and/or synchronized inputs to produce long-term changes in other molecules (such as AMPA-type glutamate receptors) which can last from days to years, binding internal and external stimuli in a long-term memory trace. Such memories could allow salient drug-related stimuli to exert strong control over future behaviors and thus promote addictive drives. Finally, NMDARs may themselves undergo plasticity, which can alter subsequent neuronal stimulation and/or the ability to induce plasticity. This review will address recent and past findings suggesting that NMDAR activity promotes drug- and alcohol-related behaviors, with a particular focus on GluN2B subunits as possible central regulators of many addictive behaviors, as well as newer studies examining the importance of non-canonical NMDAR subunits and endogenous NMDAR cofactors.
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