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35 Nicotinic receptors (nAChR) in the brain : Gene expression and contribution to learning and aging processes

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7-Chloro-5-(furan-3-yl)-3-methyl-4H-benzo[e][1,2,4]thiadiazine 1,1-Dioxide as Positive Allosteric Modulator of α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid (AMPA) Receptor. The End of the Unsaturated-Inactive Paradigm?

scientific article published on 18 November 2015

A comparative study of the effects of the intravenous self-administration or subcutaneous minipump infusion of nicotine on the expression of brain neuronal nicotinic receptor subtypes

scientific article published on 3 May 2010

A correlation analysis of the regional distribution of central enkephalin and beta-endorphin immunoreactive terminals and of opiate receptors in adult and old male rats. Evidence for the existence of two main types of communication in the central ne

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A new approach to quantitate the density and antigen contents of high densities of transmitter-identified terminals. Immunocytochemical studies on different types of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive nerve terminals in nucleus caudatus putamen of

scientific article published on 01 October 1982

A single (−)-nicotine injection causes change with a time delay in the affinity of striatal D2 receptors for antagonist, but not for agonist, nor in the D2 receptor mRNA levels in the rat substantia nigra

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Abnormal avoidance learning in mice lacking functional high-affinity nicotine receptor in the brain

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Acute and long-term changes in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway after systemic or local single nicotine injections

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Age-related alterations in tanycytes of the mediobasal hypothalamus of the male rat

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Alteration of hippocampal cell proliferation in mice lacking the beta 2 subunit of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

scientific article published in December 2004

An improved LC-S/MS method for the quantitation of adenosine concentration in mice brain microdialysates.

scientific article published on 19 May 2012

Application of Polymeric Nanoparticles for CNS Targeted Zinc Delivery In Vivo.

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Aspects of neural plasticity in the central nervous system-I. Computer-assisted image analysis methods

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Aspects of neural plasticity in the central nervous system-II. Numerical classification in neuroanatomy

scientific article published in January 1990

Aspects of neural plasticity in the central nervous system-III. Methodological studies on the microdialysis technique

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Aspects of neural plasticity in the central nervous system-IV. Chemical anatomical studies on the aging brain

scientific article published in January 1990

Aspects of neural plasticity in the central nervous system-V. Studies on a model of transient forebrain ischemia in male Sprague-Dawley rats.

scientific article published on January 1990

Aspects of neural plasticity in the central nervous system-VI. Studies of the effects of gangliosides on brain metabolic lesions

scientific article published in January 1990

Aspects of neural plasticity in the central nervous system-VII. Theoretical aspects of brain communication and computation

scientific article published in January 1990

Bifunctional compounds targeting both D2 and non-α7 nACh receptors: design, synthesis and pharmacological characterization

scientific article published on 20 June 2015

Brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: native subtypes and their relevance.

scientific article published on 31 July 2006

Brain nicotinic receptors: structure and regulation, role in learning and reinforcement

scholarly article by Jean-Pierre Changeux et al published May 1998 in Brain Research Reviews

Brain-targeted polymeric nanoparticles: in vivo evidence of different routes of administration in rodents

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CC4, a dimer of cytisine, is a selective partial agonist at α4β2/α6β2 nAChR with improved selectivity for tobacco smoking cessation.

scientific article published on February 2013

Calcineurin A versus NS5A-TP2/HD domain containing 2: a case study of site-directed low-frequency random mutagenesis for dissecting target specificity of peptide aptamers

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Can the role of genetic factors in schizophrenia be enlightened by studies of candidate gene mutant mice behaviour?

scientific article published on January 2009

Cannabinoid receptor antagonists counteract sensorimotor gating deficits in the phencyclidine model of psychosis.

scientific article published on 14 February 2007

Central glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactive neurons: new insights into the endocrine regulation of the brain

scientific article published in January 1987

Changes in nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit mRNAs and nicotinic binding in spontaneously hypertensive stroke prone rats

scientific article published in December 1999

Changes in striatal mu and delta opioid receptors after transient forebrain ischemia: a quantitative autoradiographic study

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Characterisation of gastric ghrelin cells in man and other mammals: studies in adult and fetal tissues

scientific article published on 29 May 2002

Characterization of the hypothalamo-pituitary-IGF-I axis in rats made obese by overfeeding

scientific article published in February 1996

Chronic nicotine and withdrawal affect glutamatergic but not nicotinic receptor expression in the mesocorticolimbic pathway in a region-specific manner

scientific article published on 26 November 2015

Coaggregation, cointernalization, and codesensitization of adenosine A2A receptors and dopamine D2 receptors

scientific article (publication date: 17 May 2002)

Combined alpha 2-adrenergic/D2 dopamine receptor blockade fails to reproduce the ability of clozapine to reverse phencyclidine-induced deficits in prepulse inhibition of startle.

scientific article published on 11 September 2001

Computer-assisted mapping of basic fibroblast growth factor immunoreactive nerve cell populations in the rat brain

scientific article published in July 1996

D1 receptor mechanisms in the median eminence and their inhibitory regulation of LHRH release

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

D2R striatopallidal neurons inhibit both locomotor and drug reward processes

scientific article published on 8 March 2009

Decrease in mRNA levels but not in the density of D2 dopamine receptors in rat striatum after transient forebrain ischemia

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Demonstration of NPY transmitter receptor mismatches in the central nervous system of the male rat

scientific article published on 01 February 1989

Developmental overfeeding alters hypothalamic neuropeptide mRNA levels and response to a high-fat diet in adult mice

scientific article published on 13 June 2011

Diet-induced changes in hypothalamic pro-opio-melanocortin mRNA in the rat hypothalamus

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Different physiological and behavioural effects of e-cigarette vapour and cigarette smoke in mice

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Differential effects of nicotinic antagonists perfused into the nucleus accumbens or the ventral tegmental area on cocaine-induced dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens of mice

scientific article published on 24 October 2006

Differential ontogenetic expression and regulation of proenkephalin and preprosomatostatin mRNAs in rat caudate-putamen as studied by in situ hybridization histochemistry

scientific article published in June 1991

Distribution and pharmacology of alpha 6-containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors analyzed with mutant mice

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Distribution of dopamine-immunoreactive neurons and their relationships to transmitter and hypothalamic hormone-immunoreactive neuronal systems in the rat mediobasal hypothalamus. A morphometric and microdensitometric analysis

scientific article published in September 1993

Diversity of native nicotinic receptor subtypes in mammalian brain

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Effects of chronic uridine treatment on regional neuropeptide and tyrosine hydroxylase-like immunoreactivities in the brain of 12 month-old male rats

scientific article published in January 1988

Effects of ganglioside GM1 treatment on striatal glucose metabolism, blood flow, and protein phosphorylation of the rat.

scientific article published in September 1985

Effects of lesions and ganglioside GM1 treatment on striatal polyamine levels and nigral DA neurons. A role of putrescine in the neurotropic activity of gangliosides

scientific article published in August 1985

Effects of neurotoxic and mechanical lesions of the mesostriatal dopamine pathway on striatal polyamine levels in the rat: modulation by chronic ganglioside GM1 treatment

scientific article published in November 1985

Effects of nicotine in the dopaminergic system of mice lacking the alpha4 subunit of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

scientific article published on April 2003

Effects of nitric oxide inhibition on the spread of biotinylated dextran and on extracellular space parameters in the neostriatum of the male rat.

scientific article published in January 1999

Effects of polyamine synthesis blockade on neuronal loss and astroglial reaction after transient forebrain ischemia

scientific article published in April 1993

Effects of transient forebrain ischaemia on vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactive neuronal populations in the frontoparietal cortex and hippocampal formation of the male rat

scientific article published on 01 June 1989

Effects of transient forebrain ischemia on peptidergic neurons and astroglial cells: evidence for recovery of peptide immunoreactivities in neocortex and striatum but not hippocampal formation

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Endocytosis of Nanomedicines: The Case of Glycopeptide Engineered PLGA Nanoparticles.

scientific article published on 19 June 2015

Evidence for a role of neosynthetized putrescine in the increase of glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity induced by a mechanical lesion in the rat brain

scientific article published in November 1990

Evidence for cholecystokinin-dopamine receptor interactions in the central nervous system of the adult and old rat. Studies on their functional meaning

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Evidence for the existence of a dopamine receptor of the D-1 type in the rat median eminence

scientific article published in December 1983

Evidence for the existence of ornithine decarboxylase-immunoreactive neurons in the rat brain

scientific article published on 01 May 1987

Evidence for the existence of pulses of dopamine in the extracellular space of the rat striatum

scientific article published in January 2000

Exploiting Bacterial Pathways for BBB Crossing with PLGA Nanoparticles Modified with a Mutated Form of Diphtheria Toxin (CRM197): In Vivo Experiments

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Exposure to an enriched environment selectively increases the functional response of the pre-synaptic NMDA receptors which modulate noradrenaline release in mouse hippocampus.

scientific article published in September 2009

Feeding and drinking responses to neuropeptide Y injections in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus of aged rats

scientific article published in March 1992

Functional striatal hypodopaminergic activity in mice lacking adenosine A(2A) receptors

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Ghrelin expression in gut endocrine growths

scientific article published on 29 May 2002

Heterogeneity and complexity of native brain nicotinic receptors.

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Heterogeneity and selective targeting of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subtypes expressed on retinal afferents of the superior colliculus and lateral geniculate nucleus: identification of a new native nAChR subtype alpha3beta2(al

scientific article published on 27 July 2005

Hypothalamic neuropeptide Y and galanin in overweight rats fed a cafeteria diet

scientific article published in January 1998

Hypothalamo-pituitary-IGF-1 axis in female rats made obese by overfeeding

scientific article published in January 1997

Immunochemical localization of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase I.

scientific article published in May 1995

Increased neurodegeneration during ageing in mice lacking high-affinity nicotine receptors

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Increases in sulphated glycoprotein-2 mRNA levels in the rat brain after transient forebrain ischemia or partial mesodiencephalic hemitransection

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Indole-pyruvic acid treatment reduces damage in striatum but not in hippocampus after transient forebrain ischemia in the rat.

scientific article published in August 1993

Inhibition of both alpha7* and beta2* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors is necessary to prevent development of sensitization to cocaine-elicited increases in extracellular dopamine levels in the ventral striatum

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Insight on the fate of CNS-targeted nanoparticles. Part I: Rab5-dependent cell-specific uptake and distribution

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Insight on the fate of CNS-targeted nanoparticles. Part II: Intercellular neuronal cell-to-cell transport

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Integrated events in central dopamine transmission as analyzed at multiple levels. Evidence for intramembrane adenosine A2A/dopamine D2 and adenosine A1/dopamine D1 receptor interactions in the basal ganglia

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

Intercellular communication in the brain: wiring versus volume transmission.

scientific article published on December 1995

Intravenous uridine treatment antagonizes hypoglycaemia-induced reduction in brain somatostatin-like immunoreactivity

scientific article published in April 1986

Localization of [3H]nicotine, [3H]cytisine, [3H]epibatidine, and [125I]alpha-bungarotoxin binding sites in the brain of Macaca mulatta

scientific article published in June 2003

Long-lasting reduction of glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactivity in the hippocampal field CA1 but not in the dentate gyrus after neonatal treatment with corticosterone in the rat.

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Loss of high-affinity nicotinic receptors increases the vulnerability to excitotoxic lesion and decreases the positive effects of an enriched environment

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Mapping and computer assisted morphometry and microdensitometry of glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactive neurons and glial cells in the rat central nervous system.

scientific article published on October 1994

Morphometric evaluation of populations of neuronal profiles (cell bodies, dendrites, and nerve terminals) in the central nervous system

scientific article published on June 1, 1992

Morphometrical and microdensitometrical studies on phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase- and neuropeptide Y-immunoreactive nerve terminals and on glucocorticoid receptor-immunoreactive nerve cell nuclei in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus

scientific article published on 01 August 1988

Morphometrical evidence for a complex organization of tyrosine hydroxylase-, enkephalin- and DARPP-32-like immunoreactive patches and their codistribution at three rostrocaudal levels in the rat neostriatum

scientific article published on 01 December 1988

Neurochemical alterations but not nerve cell loss in aged rat neostriatum

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Neuronal plasticity and ageing processes in the frame of the 'Red Queen Theory'

scientific article published on August 1, 1992

Neuroprotection via nAChRs: the role of nAChRs in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

scientific article published on January 2008

Neurosteroids and epileptogenesis in the pilocarpine model: evidence for a relationship between P450scc induction and length of the latent period

scientific article published on January 2009

Nicotine and neurodegeneration in ageing.

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Nicotine withdrawal increases body weight, neuropeptide Y and Agouti-related protein expression in the hypothalamus and decreases uncoupling protein-3 expression in the brown adipose tissue in high-fat fed mice

scientific article published on 18 October 2006

Nicotine-induced structural plasticity in mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons is mediated by dopamine D3 receptors and Akt-mTORC1 signaling

scientific article published on 29 March 2013

Nicotinic Regulation of Energy Homeostasis

scientific article published on September 18, 2012

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes expression during rat retina development and their regulation by visual experience.

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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the mesolimbic pathway: primary role of ventral tegmental area alpha6beta2* receptors in mediating systemic nicotine effects on dopamine release, locomotion, and reinforcement.

scientific article published in April 2010

Nicotinic receptors in aging and dementia

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Nicotinic, glutamatergic and dopaminergic synaptic transmission and plasticity in the mesocorticolimbic system: focus on nicotine effects

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O015. Evaluation of the genetic polymorphism of the α3 (CHRNA3) and α5 (CHRNA5) nicotinic receptor subunits, in patients with cluster headache

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On the distribution patterns of D1, D2, tyrosine hydroxylase and dopamine transporter immunoreactivities in the ventral striatum of the rat.

scientific article published in March 1999

Ontogeny and tissue-specific regulation of ghrelin mRNA expression suggest that ghrelin is primarily involved in the control of extraendocrine functions in the rat.

scientific article published in February 2003

PEG-g-chitosan nanoparticles functionalized with the monoclonal antibody OX26 for brain drug targeting.

scientific article published in June 2015

Pharmacological manipulation of brain galaninergic system and sexual behavior in male mice

scientific article published on 31 January 2002

Polyamines, ornithine decarboxylase, and diamine oxidase in the substantia nigra and striatum of the male rat after hemitransection

scientific article published on 01 July 1988

Pre-synaptic nicotinic and D receptors functionally interact on dopaminergic nerve endings of rat and mouse nucleus accumbens

scientific article published on 16 February 2009

Preferential alterations in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway of heterozygous reeler mice: an emerging animal-based model of schizophrenia.

scientific article published in April 2002

Promoter analysis of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha4 gene: methylation and expression of the transgene.

scientific article published in July 1998

Promoter elements conferring neuron-specific expression of the beta 2-subunit of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor studied in vitro and in transgenic mice

scientific article published in December 1995

Protective effects of delapril combined with indapamide or hydrochlorothiazide in spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rats: a comparative dose-response analysis

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

Proteomic research of proteins involved in pain expression in an animal model of chronic pain

scientific article published in December 2015

Reduced growth hormone releasing factor (GHRF)-like immunoreactivity and GHRF gene expression in the hypothalamus of aged rats

scientific article published on 01 May 1989

Regional and cellular distribution of spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase (SSAT) mRNA in the rat central nervous system

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

Regional and cellular distribution within the rat prostate of two mRNA species undergoing opposite regulation by androgens

scientific article published on 01 March 1992

Regional increases in ornithine decarboxylase mRNA levels in the rat brain after partial mesodiencephalic hemitransection as revealed by in situ hybridization histochemistry.

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Regional patterns and clinical correlates of basal ganglia morphology in non-medicated schizophrenia

scientific article published on 24 September 2008

Repeated electroconvulsive shock increases glial fibrillary acidic protein, ornithine decarboxylase, somatostatin and cholecystokinin immunoreactivities in the hippocampal formation of the rat.

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Rivastigmine antagonizes deficits in prepulse inhibition induced by selective immunolesioning of cholinergic neurons in nucleus basalis magnocellularis.

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Rodent habenulo-interpeduncular pathway expresses a large variety of uncommon nAChR subtypes, but only the alpha3beta4* and alpha3beta3beta4* subtypes mediate acetylcholine release

scientific article published on February 2009

Ryanodine receptor-2 upregulation and nicotine-mediated plasticity.

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Selective activation of central subtypes of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor has opposite effects on neonatal excitotoxic brain injuries

scientific article published on 14 January 2002

Selective disarrangement of the rostral telencephalic cholinergic system in heterozygous reeler mice.

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Selective immunolesioning of cholinergic neurons in nucleus basalis magnocellularis impairs prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle.

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Selective reduction of glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactivity in the hippocampal formation and central amygdaloid nucleus of the aged rat.

scientific article published in April 1991

Serum proteomic analysis during nicotine self-administration, extinction and relapse in rats

scientific article published in April 2008

Simultaneous measurement of adenosine, dopamine, acetylcholine and 5-hydroxytryptamine in cerebral mice microdialysis samples by LC-ESI-MS/MS.

scientific article published on 10 August 2012

Spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase mRNA levels show marked and region-specific changes in the early phase after transient forebrain ischemia

scientific article published on 01 May 1996

Striatal ornithine decarboxylase activity following neurotoxic and mechanical lesions of the mesostriatal dopamine system of the male rat.

scientific article published in September 1985

Studies on neuropeptide Y-catecholamine interactions in the hypothalamus and in the forebrain of the male rat. Relationship to neuroendocrine function

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

Studies on neurotensin catecholamine interactions in the hypothalamus and in the forebrain of the male rat

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

Studies on the cellular localization and distribution of glucocorticoid receptor and estrogen receptor immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of the rat and their relationship to the monoaminergic and peptidergic neurons of the brain

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Subunit and region-specific decreases in nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mRNA in the aged rat brain

scientific article published in January 1999

Synapsin-I- and synapsin-II-null mice display an increased age-dependent cognitive impairment.

scientific article published on 19 August 2008

Targeting of the Arpc3 actin nucleation factor by miR-29a/b regulates dendritic spine morphology.

scientific article published on September 2011

Temporal changes in sulphated glycoprotein-2 (clusterin) and ornithine decarboxylase mRNA levels in the rat testis after ethane-dimethane sulphonate-induced degeneration of Leydig cells

scientific article published on 01 February 1995

The emergence of the volume transmission concept

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The encapsulated strain TIGR4 of Streptococcus pneumoniae is phagocytosed but is resistant to intracellular killing by mouse microglia.

scientific article published on 6 July 2010

The novel α7β2-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtype is expressed in mouse and human basal forebrain: biochemical and pharmacological characterization.

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Transient forebrain ischemia produces multiple deficits in dopamine D1 transmission in the lateral neostriatum of the rat

scientific article published on 01 October 1989

Volume transmission in the CNS and its relevance for neuropsychopharmacology.

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l-Glutamate reduces the affinity of [3H]N-propylnorapomorphine binding sites in striatal membranes

scientific article published in April 1984