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List of works by Valentina Sabino

14-Methoxymetopon, a highly potent mu opioid agonist, biphasically affects ethanol intake in Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats

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A modified adjusting delay task to assess impulsive choice between isocaloric reinforcers in non-deprived male rats: effects of 5-HT₂A/C and 5-HT₁A receptor agonists

scientific article published on 12 October 2011

Activation of σ-receptors induces binge-like drinking in Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats

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CRF Mediates the Anxiogenic and Anti-Rewarding, But Not the Anorectic Effects of PACAP

scientific article published on May 9, 2013

CRF system recruitment mediates dark side of compulsive eating

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CRF-CRF1 receptor system in the central and basolateral nuclei of the amygdala differentially mediates excessive eating of palatable food.

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Centrally administered urocortin 2 decreases gorging on high-fat diet in both diet-induced obesity-prone and -resistant rats.

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

Characterization of a shortened model of diet alternation in female rats: effects of the CB1 receptor antagonist rimonabant on food intake and anxiety-like behavior.

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Consummatory, anxiety-related and metabolic adaptations in female rats with alternating access to preferred food.

scientific article published on 8 October 2008

Corticotropin releasing factor-induced amygdala gamma-aminobutyric Acid release plays a key role in alcohol dependence.

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Diet-induced obesity and diet-resistant rats: differences in the rewarding and anorectic effects of D-amphetamine

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Dissociation between opioid and CRF1 antagonist sensitive drinking in Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats.

scientific article published on 18 October 2006

Effects of CB1 and CRF1 receptor antagonists on binge-like eating in rats with limited access to a sweet fat diet: lack of withdrawal-like responses.

scientific article published on 06 July 2012

Ethanol-related behaviors in mice lacking the sigma-1 receptor

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Feeding microstructure in diet-induced obesity susceptible versus resistant rats: central effects of urocortin 2.

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Functional characterization of alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes in vascular tissues using different experimental approaches: a comparative study.

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Genome-wide gene expression analysis identifies K-ras as a regulator of alcohol intake

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High trait impulsivity predicts food addiction-like behavior in the rat

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Increased perioculomotor urocortin 1 immunoreactivity in genetically selected alcohol preferring rats.

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Intermittent access to preferred food reduces the reinforcing efficacy of chow in rats.

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Nicotine dependence produces hyperalgesia: role of corticotropin-releasing factor-1 receptors (CRF1Rs) in the central amygdala (CeA).

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Opioid system in the medial prefrontal cortex mediates binge-like eating

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Opioid-dependent anticipatory negative contrast and binge-like eating in rats with limited access to highly preferred food

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PACAP regulation of central amygdala GABAergic synapses is altered by restraint stress

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Pharmacological characterization of the 20% alcohol intermittent access model in Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats: a model of binge-like drinking.

scientific article published on 5 November 2012

Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Peptide in the Central Amygdala Causes Anorexia and Body Weight Loss via the Melanocortin and the TrkB Systems.

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide induces a depressive-like phenotype in rats.

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Rimonabant precipitates anxiety in rats withdrawn from palatable food: role of the central amygdala

scientific article published on 24 June 2013

Role of the PACAP system of the extended amygdala in the acoustic startle response in rats

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Seeking behavior, place conditioning, and resistance to conditioned suppression of feeding in rats intermittently exposed to palatable food

scientific article published on April 2015

Sigma-1 receptor knockout mice display a depressive-like phenotype.

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Sigma-1 receptor mediates acquisition of alcohol drinking and seeking behavior in alcohol-preferring rats.

scientific article published on 4 April 2015

Social defeat stress activates medial amygdala cells that express type 2 corticotropin-releasing factor receptor mRNA

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Systemic urocortin 2, but not urocortin 1 or stressin1-A, suppresses feeding via CRF2 receptors without malaise and stress

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

The inverse agonist of CB1 receptor SR141716 blocks compulsive eating of palatable food.

scientific article published on 16 April 2013

The sigma-receptor antagonist BD-1063 decreases ethanol intake and reinforcement in animal models of excessive drinking

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The uncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist memantine reduces binge-like eating, food-seeking behavior, and compulsive eating: role of the nucleus accumbens shell

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The uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonists ketamine and memantine preferentially increase the choice for a small, immediate reward in low-impulsive rats

scientific article published on 27 October 2012

mTOR activation is required for the anti-alcohol effect of ketamine, but not memantine, in alcohol-preferring rats

scientific article published on 4 March 2013