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List of works by Michela Marinelli

Acute blockade of corticosterone secretion decreases the psychomotor stimulant effects of cocaine.

scientific article published in February 1997

Adolescent-onset of cocaine use is associated with heightened stress-induced reinstatement of cocaine seeking.

scientific article

Adrenalectomy increases neurogenesis but not PSA-NCAM expression in aged dentate gyrus.

scientific article published on April 1999

Complex regulation of the expression of the polysialylated form of the neuronal cell adhesion molecule by glucocorticoids in the rat hippocampus.

scientific article published in September 1998

Corticosterone circadian secretion differentially facilitates dopamine-mediated psychomotor effect of cocaine and morphine.

scientific article

Decreased firing frequency of midbrain dopamine neurons in mice lacking mu opioid receptors

scientific article published in May 2005

Dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area fire faster in adolescent rats than in adults.

scientific article published on 20 June 2012

Dopamine scales performance in the absence of new learning.

scientific article published in September 2006

Enhanced vulnerability to cocaine self-administration is associated with elevated impulse activity of midbrain dopamine neurons.

scientific article

Fos after single and repeated self-administration of cocaine and saline in the rat: emphasis on the Basal forebrain and recalibration of expression

scientific article published on January 2010

Functional heterogeneity in dopamine release and in the expression of Fos-like proteins within the rat striatal complex.

scientific article published in April 1999

Glucocorticoids and behavioral effects of psychostimulants. I: locomotor response to cocaine depends on basal levels of glucocorticoids.

scientific article published in June 1997

Glucocorticoids and behavioral effects of psychostimulants. II: cocaine intravenous self-administration and reinstatement depend on glucocorticoid levels.

scientific article published in June 1997

Heterogeneity of dopamine neuron activity across traits and states.

scientific article

Impulse activity of midbrain dopamine neurons modulates drug-seeking behavior

scientific article published on April 30, 2003

Individual differences in dopamine cell neuroadaptations following cocaine self-administration.

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Inhibition of corticosterone synthesis by Metyrapone decreases cocaine-induced locomotion and relapse of cocaine self-administration.

scientific article published in September 1994

Leptin receptor signaling in midbrain dopamine neurons regulates feeding

scientific journal article

Persistent increases in cocaine-seeking behavior after acute exposure to cold swim stress

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Pharmacological stimuli decreasing nucleus accumbens dopamine can act as positive reinforcers but have a low addictive potential.

scientific article published in October 1998

Prominent activation of brainstem and pallidal afferents of the ventral tegmental area by cocaine

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Reduced sensitivity to reinforcement in adolescent compared to adult Sprague-Dawley rats of both sexes.

scientific article published on 2 December 2017

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants potentiate methylphenidate (Ritalin)-induced gene regulation in the adolescent striatum.

scientific article

Sensitization to the motor effects of contingent infusions of heroin but not of kappa agonist RU 51599.

scientific article published in October 1998

Stress and addiction: glucocorticoid receptor in dopaminoceptive neurons facilitates cocaine seeking

scientific article

Stress-induced sensitization and glucocorticoids. I. Sensitization of dopamine-dependent locomotor effects of amphetamine and morphine depends on stress-induced corticosterone secretion.

scientific article published in November 1995

Stress-induced sensitization and glucocorticoids. II. Sensitization of the increase in extracellular dopamine induced by cocaine depends on stress-induced corticosterone secretion.

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Suppression of glucocorticoid secretion and antipsychotic drugs have similar effects on the mesolimbic dopaminergic transmission.

scientific article published on December 1996

The many facets of the locomotor response to a novel environment test: theoretical comment on Mitchell, Cunningham, and Mark (2005).

scientific article published in August 2005

The mesopontine rostromedial tegmental nucleus: A structure targeted by the lateral habenula that projects to the ventral tegmental area of Tsai and substantia nigra compacta

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