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ArticleNeuroscience2017

CART peptide in the nucleus accumbens regulates psychostimulants: Correlations between psychostimulant and CART peptide effects.

Martin O Job, Michael J Kuhar

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Article in Neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. A New Insight into the Role of CART Peptide in Serotonergic Function and Anxiety.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Martin O JobThe Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University, 954 Gatewood Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA; Psychobiology Section, Molecular Neuropsychiatry Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA. Electronic address: femijob@gmail.com.
Michael J KuharThe Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University, 954 Gatewood Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
Emory University · USNational Institute on Drug Abuse · US

Funding

Yerkes National Primate Research Center Role of type-I IFN in regulating COVID-19 induced inflammation and pathogenesisP51OD011132 · OD · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Joon Sup Lee · 2012 to 2026
$167.0M
YNPRC NHP CLINICAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM - SUPPLEMENTP51RR000165 · NCRR · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI RENGARAJAN, JYOTHI · 1985 to 2011
$114.0M
Training Program in Neurobiology of Drug AbuseT32DA015040 · NIDA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI KUHAR, MICHAEL J · 2003 to 2012
$3.6M
NCRR NIH HHS P51 RR000165NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA015040NIH HHS P51 OD011132
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we reexamined the effect of Cocaine-and-Amphetamine-Regulated-Transcript (CART) peptide on psychostimulant (PS)-induced locomotor activity (LMA) in individual rats. The Methods utilized were as previously published. The PS-induced LMA was defined as the distance traveled after PS administration (intraperitoneal), and the CART peptide effect was defined as the change in the PS-induced activity after bilateral intra-NAc administration of CART peptide. The experiments included both male and female Sprague-Dawley rats, and varying the CART peptide dose and the PS dose. While the average effect of CART peptide was to inhibit PS-induced LMA, the effect of CART peptide on individual PS-treated animals was not always inhibitory and sometimes even produced an increase or no change in PS-induced LMA. Upon further analysis, we observed a linear correlation, reported for the first time, between the magnitude of PS-induced LMA and the CART peptide effect. Because CART peptide inhibits PS-induced LMA when it is large, and increases PS-induced LMA when it is small, the peptide can be considered a homeostatic regulator of dopamine-induced LMA, which supports our earlier homeostatic hypothesis.

Indexed as

AmphetamineAnimalsCentral Nervous System StimulantsCocaineCocaine- and Amphetamine-Regulated Transcript ProteinFemaleMaleMotor ActivityNerve Tissue ProteinsNucleus AccumbensRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyAmphetamineCentral Nervous System StimulantsCocaineCocaine- and Amphetamine-Regulated Transcript ProteinNerve Tissue ProteinsCART peptidedopaminehomeostasislocomotor activitynucleus accumbenspsychostimulant

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PMID28215744
PMCPMC5367934
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