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List of works by Alejandro Higuera-Matas

Augmented acquisition of cocaine self-administration and altered brain glucose metabolism in adult female but not male rats exposed to a cannabinoid agonist during adolescence

scientific article

CNR1 gene deletion affects the density of endomorphin-2 binding sites in the mouse brain in a hemisphere-specific manner

scientific article

Cannabidiol, a nonpsychotropic component of cannabis, inhibits cue-induced heroin seeking and normalizes discrete mesolimbic neuronal disturbances

scientific journal article

Central nucleus of the amygdala as a common substrate of the incubation of drug and natural reinforcer seeking

scientific article published on 08 January 2019

Changes in D1 but not D2 dopamine or mu-opioid receptor expression in limbic and motor structures after lateral hypothalamus electrical self-stimulation: A quantitative autoradiographic study.

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Chronic cannabinoid administration to periadolescent rats modulates the metabolic response to acute cocaine in the adult brain

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Chronic periadolescent cannabinoid treatment enhances adult hippocampal PSA-NCAM expression in male Wistar rats but only has marginal effects on anxiety, learning and memory.

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Cocaine facilitates protein synthesis-dependent LTP: the role of metabotropic glutamate receptors.

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Cocaine self-administration differentially modulates the expression of endogenous cannabinoid system-related proteins in the hippocampus of Lewis vs. Fischer 344 rats

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DREAM controls the on/off switch of specific activity-dependent transcription pathways

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Depotentiation of hippocampal long-term potentiation depends on genetic background and is modulated by cocaine self-administration

scientific article published on 5 May 2011

Differential cocaine-induced modulation of glutamate and dopamine transporters after contingent and non-contingent administration

scientific article published on 27 June 2008

Differential gene expression in the nucleus accumbens and frontal cortex of lewis and Fischer 344 rats relevant to drug addiction.

scientific article published on March 2011

Enhancement of hippocampal long-term potentiation induced by cocaine self-administration is maintained during the extinction of this behavior

scientific article published on 18 September 2006

Extended-access methamphetamine self-administration elicits neuroinflammatory response along with blood-brain barrier breakdown.

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Genetic differences in the modulation of accumbal glutamate and γ-amino butyric acid levels after cocaine-induced reinstatement.

scientific article published on 18 October 2011

Glutamate and aspartate levels in the nucleus accumbens during cocaine self-administration and extinction: a time course microdialysis study.

scientific article published on 17 October 2007

Hippocampal synaptic plasticity and water maze learning in cocaine self-administered rats.

scientific article published in August 2006

Immunoglobulin G Fc receptor deficiency prevents Alzheimer-like pathology and cognitive impairment in mice.

scientific article published in September 2012

Long-term consequences of perinatal and adolescent cannabinoid exposure on neural and psychological processes.

scientific article published on 08 May 2015

Mice with decreased cerebral dopamine function following a neurotoxic dose of MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, "Ecstasy") exhibit increased ethanol consumption and preference

scientific article published on 25 May 2007

Modulation of the endogenous opioid system after morphine self-administration and during its extinction: a study in Lewis and Fischer 344 rats.

scientific article published on 11 December 2006

Morphine self-administration alters the expression of translational machinery genes in the amygdala of male Lewis rats

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

MouBeAT: A New and Open Toolbox for Guided Analysis of Behavioral Tests in Mice

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Mu-Opioid Receptors in Ganglia, But Not in Muscle, Mediate Peripheral Analgesia in Rat Muscle Pain.

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Neural Changes Developed during the Extinction of Cocaine Self-Administration Behavior

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Parafascicular thalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation decreases NMDA receptor GluN1 subunit gene expression in the prefrontal cortex

scientific article

Selective effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol on medium spiny neurons in the striatum

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Sex-dependent effects of periadolescent exposure to the cannabinoid agonist CP-55,940 on morphine self-administration behaviour and the endogenous opioid system

scientific article

Sex-specific disturbances of the glutamate/GABA balance in the hippocampus of adult rats subjected to adolescent cannabinoid exposure

scientific article published on 8 January 2012

Strain differences between Lewis and Fischer 344 rats in the modulation of dopaminergic receptors after morphine self-administration and during extinction.

scientific article published on 17 April 2009

Strain differences in the dose-response relationship for morphine self-administration and impulsive choice between Lewis and Fischer 344 rats

scientific article published on 20 May 2010

Strain differences in the expression of endocannabinoid genes and in cannabinoid receptor binding in the brain of Lewis and Fischer 344 rats.

scientific article published on 6 March 2014

The role of the mTOR pathway in models of drug-induced reward and the behavioural constituents of addiction

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

Unaltered cocaine self-administration in the prenatal LPS rat model of schizophrenia

scientific article published on 15 April 2016

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