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List of works by Gitta Wörtwein

5-HT2A Receptor Binding in the Frontal Cortex of Parkinson's Disease Patients and Alpha-Synuclein Overexpressing Mice: A Postmortem Study

scientific article published on 4 August 2016

A C-terminal PDZ domain-binding sequence is required for striatal distribution of the dopamine transporter

scientific article published on January 2013

A chronic increase of corticosterone age-dependently reduces systemic DNA damage from oxidation in rats

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Abeta(1-42) injection causes memory impairment, lowered cortical and serum BDNF levels, and decreased hippocampal 5-HT(2A) levels

scientific article published in November 2007

Addiction-related effects of DOV 216,303 and cocaine: A comparative study in the mouse.

scientific article

An allosteric enhancer of M₄ muscarinic acetylcholine receptor function inhibits behavioral and neurochemical effects of cocaine

scientific article

Antipsychotic-induced catalepsy is attenuated in mice lacking the M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor.

scientific article published on 24 January 2011

Aripiprazole blocks acute self-administration of cocaine and is not self-administered in mice.

scientific article published on 15 May 2008

Chronic electroconvulsive stimulation but not chronic restraint stress modulates mRNA expression of voltage-dependent potassium channels Kv7.2 and Kv11.1 in the rat piriform cortex

scientific article published on 05 October 2007

Chronic restraint stress in rats causes sustained increase in urinary corticosterone excretion without affecting cerebral or systemic oxidatively generated DNA/RNA damage

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

Delayed restraint procedure enhances cognitive recovery of spatial function after fimbria-fornix transection

scientific article published on 30 October 2015

Differential roles for neuropeptide Y Y1 and Y5 receptors in anxiety and sedation

scientific article published in September 2004

Dynamic regulation of cerebral DNA repair genes by psychological stress

scientific article published on 27 December 2014

Effects of acute and chronic aripiprazole treatment on choice between cocaine self-administration and food under a concurrent schedule of reinforcement in rats

scientific article

Electroconvulsive stimulation results in long-term survival of newly generated hippocampal neurons in rats

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

Electroconvulsive stimulation, but not chronic restraint stress, causes structural alterations in adult rat hippocampus--a stereological study.

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Electroconvulsive stimulations normalizes stress-induced changes in the glucocorticoid receptor and behaviour

scientific article published on 5 August 2008

Electroconvulsive stimulations prevent chronic stress-induced increases in L-type calcium channel mRNAs in the hippocampus and basolateral amygdala

scientific article published on 24 March 2012

Electroconvulsive stimulations prevent stress-induced morphological changes in the hippocampus

scientific article published in July 2008

Enhanced self-administration of alcohol in muscarinic acetylcholine M4 receptor knockout mice.

scientific article published on 20 November 2014

Erythropoietin prevents the effect of chronic restraint stress on the number of hippocampal CA3c dendritic terminals-relation to expression of genes involved in synaptic plasticity, angiogenesis, inflammation, and oxidative stress in male rats.

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Erythropoietin treatment may improve cognition in neuropsychiatric disorders

scientific article published in August 2017

Escitalopram reduces increased hippocampal cytogenesis in a genetic rat depression model

scientific article

Exacerbated loss of cell survival, neuropeptide Y-immunoreactive (IR) cells, and serotonin-IR fiber lengths in the dorsal hippocampus of the aged flinders sensitive line "depressed" rat: Implications for the pathophysiology of depression?

scientific article published in November 2006

Fluoxetine reverts chronic restraint stress-induced depression-like behaviour and increases neuropeptide Y and galanin expression in mice

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Gene-environment interaction affects substance P and neurokinin A in the entorhinal cortex and periaqueductal grey in a genetic animal model of depression: implications for the pathophysiology of depression

scientific article

Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Treatment Does Not Reduce Abuse-Related Effects of Opioid Drugs

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor activation regulates cocaine actions and dopamine homeostasis in the lateral septum by decreasing arachidonic acid levels.

scientific article published on 17 May 2016

Increased amphetamine-induced locomotor activity, sensitization, and accumbal dopamine release in M5 muscarinic receptor knockout mice.

scientific article published on 10 October 2009

Increased cocaine self-administration in M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor knockout mice.

scientific article

Increased dopaminergic activity in socially isolated rats: an electrophysiological study.

scientific article published on 15 July 2010

Increased numbers of orexin/hypocretin neurons in a genetic rat depression model

scientific article

Initial rewarding effects of cocaine and amphetamine assessed in a day using the single-exposure place preference protocol

scientific article published on 10 August 2018

Involvement of Y(5) receptors in neuropeptide Y agonist-induced analgesic-like effect in the rat hot plate test

scientific article

Involvement of a subpopulation of neuronal M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the antipsychotic-like effects of the M1/M4 preferring muscarinic receptor agonist xanomeline.

scientific article

Ketogenic Diet Suppresses Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in Rats.

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Locomotor- and Reward-Enhancing Effects of Cocaine Are Differentially Regulated by Chemogenetic Stimulation of Gi-Signaling in Dopaminergic Neurons.

scientific article published in May 2018

Markers of HPA-axis activity and nucleic acid damage from oxidation after electroconvulsive stimulations in rats

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Membrane-permeable C-terminal dopamine transporter peptides attenuate amphetamine-evoked dopamine release.

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtypes as Potential Drug Targets for the Treatment of Schizophrenia, Drug Abuse and Parkinson's Disease

scientific article published on January 2012

Neuropeptide Y Y5 receptor antagonism attenuates cocaine-induced effects in mice.

scientific article published on 25 February 2012

Neuropeptide Y Y5 receptor antagonism causes faster extinction and attenuates reinstatement in cocaine-induced place preference

scientific article published on February 27, 2013

Neuropeptide Y infusion into the shell region of the rat nucleus accumbens increases extracellular levels of dopamine

scientific journal article

Neuropeptide Y-stimulated [(35) S]GTPγs functional binding is reduced in the hippocampus after kainate-induced seizures in mice.

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Nortriptyline mediates behavioral effects without affecting hippocampal cytogenesis in a genetic rat depression model

scientific article

PICK1-Deficient Mice Exhibit Impaired Response to Cocaine and Dysregulated Dopamine Homeostasis.

scientific article published in May 2018

Pharmacological characterization of social isolation-induced hyperactivity

scientific article published on 31 December 2010

Socially isolated rats exhibit changes in dopamine homeostasis pertinent to schizophrenia

scientific article published on 25 September 2010

Subjective perception of cocaine reward in mice assessed by a single exposure place preference (sePP) paradigm

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

The Circadian Oscillator of the Cerebral Cortex: Molecular, Biochemical and Behavioral Effects of Deleting the Arntl Clock Gene in Cortical Neurons.

scientific article published on 3 January 2017

The effect of subchronic fluoxetine treatment on learning and memory in adolescent rats

scientific article published on 9 December 2011

The glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist exendin-4 reduces cocaine self-administration in mice

scientific article

Time course and duration of changes in Kv7.2 and Kv11.1 mRNA expression in the hippocampus and piriform cortex following electroconvulsive stimulations

scientific article published on 26 February 2011