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Garduño-Gutiérrez R, León-Olea M, Rodríguez-Manzo G. Opioid receptor and β-arrestin2 densities and distribution change after sexual experience in the ventral tegmental area of male rats. Physiol Behav 2018; 189:107-115. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 03/17/2018] [Accepted: 03/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Baranger DAA, Margolis S, Hariri AR, Bogdan R. An earlier time of scan is associated with greater threat-related amygdala reactivity. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2017; 12:1272-1283. [PMID: 28379578 PMCID: PMC5597858 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsx057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2016] [Revised: 01/25/2017] [Accepted: 04/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Time-dependent variability in mood and anxiety suggest that related neural phenotypes, such as threat-related amygdala reactivity, may also follow a diurnal pattern. Here, using data from 1,043 young adult volunteers, we found that threat-related amygdala reactivity was negatively coupled with time of day, an effect which was stronger in the left hemisphere (β = -0.1083, p-fdr = 0.0012). This effect was moderated by subjective sleep quality (β = -0.0715, p-fdr = 0.0387); participants who reported average and poor sleep quality had relatively increased left amygdala reactivity in the morning. Bootstrapped simulations suggest that similar cross-sectional samples with at least 300 participants would be able to detect associations between amygdala reactivity and time of scan. In control analyses, we found no associations between time and V1 activation. Our results provide initial evidence that threat-related amygdala reactivity may vary diurnally, and that this effect is potentiated among individuals with average to low sleep quality. More broadly, our results suggest that considering time of scan in study design or modeling time of scan in analyses, as well as collecting additional measures of circadian variation, may be useful for understanding threat-related neural phenotypes and their associations with behavior, such as fear conditioning, mood and anxiety symptoms, and related phenotypes.
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- David A. A. Baranger
- BRAIN Laboratory, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
- Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- BRAIN Laboratory, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Laboratory of NeuroGenetics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- BRAIN Laboratory, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
- Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Abate P, Reyes-Guzmán AC, Hernández-Fonseca K, Méndez M. Prenatal ethanol exposure modifies locomotor activity and induces selective changes in Met-enk expression in adolescent rats. Neuropeptides 2017; 62:45-56. [PMID: 27889070 DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2016.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Several studies suggest that prenatal ethanol exposure (PEE) facilitates ethanol intake. Opioid peptides play a main role in ethanol reinforcement during infancy and adulthood. However, PEE effects upon motor responsiveness elicited by an ethanol challenge and the participation of opioids in these actions remain to be understood. This work assessed the susceptibility of adolescent rats to prenatal and/or postnatal ethanol exposure in terms of behavioral responses, as well as alcohol effects on Met-enk expression in brain areas related to drug reinforcement. Motor parameters (horizontal locomotion, rearings and stereotyped behaviors) in pre- and postnatally ethanol-challenged adolescents were evaluated. Pregnant rats received ethanol (2g/kg) or water during gestational days 17-20. Adolescents at postnatal day 30 (PD30) were tested in a three-trial activity paradigm (habituation, vehicle and drug sessions). Met-enk content was quantitated by radioimmunoassay in several regions: ventral tegmental area [VTA], nucleus accumbens [NAcc], prefrontal cortex [PFC], substantia nigra [SN], caudate-putamen [CP], amygdala, hypothalamus and hippocampus. PEE significantly reduced rearing responses. Ethanol challenge at PD30 decreased horizontal locomotion and showed a tendency to reduce rearings and stereotyped behaviors. PEE increased Met-enk content in the PFC, CP, hypothalamus and hippocampus, but did not alter peptide levels in the amygdala, VTA and NAcc. These findings suggest that PEE selectively modifies behavioral parameters at PD30 and induces specific changes in Met-enk content in regions of the mesocortical and nigrostriatal pathways, the hypothalamus and hippocampus. Prenatal and postnatal ethanol actions on motor activity in adolescents could involve activation of specific neural enkephalinergic pathways.
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- P Abate
- Laboratorio de Psicología Experimental miembro del Centro de Investigación en Psicología (CIPSi), Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CP 5000 Córdoba, Argentina; Enfermera Gordillo esq. Enrique Barros, Ciudad Universitaria, CP 5000 Córdoba, Argentina.
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- Departamento de Neuroquímica, Subdirección de Investigaciones Clínicas, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente, Calzada México Xochimilco 101, Col. San Lorenzo Huipulco, CP 14370 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Neuroquímica, Subdirección de Investigaciones Clínicas, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente, Calzada México Xochimilco 101, Col. San Lorenzo Huipulco, CP 14370 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Neuroquímica, Subdirección de Investigaciones Clínicas, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente, Calzada México Xochimilco 101, Col. San Lorenzo Huipulco, CP 14370 Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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Antón Palma B, Leff Gelman P, Medecigo Ríos M, Calva Nieves JC, Acevedo Ortuño R, Matus Ortega ME, Hernández Calderón JA, Hernández Miramontes R, Flores Zamora A, Salazar Juárez A. Generation of a novel monoclonal antibody that recognizes the alpha (α)-amidated isoform of a valine residue. BMC Neurosci 2015; 16:65. [PMID: 26463686 PMCID: PMC4603347 DOI: 10.1186/s12868-015-0206-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2015] [Accepted: 10/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Alpha (α)-amidation of peptides is a mechanism required for the conversion of prohormones into functional peptide sequences that display biological activities, receptor recognition and signal transduction on target cells. Alpha (α)-amidation occurs in almost all species and amino acids identified in nature. C-terminal valine amide neuropeptides constitute the smallest group of functional peptide compounds identified in neurosecretory structures in vertebrate and invertebrate species. Methods The α-amidated isoform of valine residue (Val-CONH2) was conjugated to KLH-protein carrier and used to immunize mice. Hyperimmune animals displaying high titers of valine amide antisera were used to generate stable hybridoma-secreting mAbs. Three productive hybridoma (P15A4, P17C11, and P18C5) were tested against peptides antigens containing both the C-terminal α-amidated (–CONH2) and free α-carboxylic acid (−COO−) isovariant of the valine residue. Results P18C5 mAb displayed the highest specificity and selectivity against C-terminal valine amidated peptide antigens in different immunoassays. P18C5 mAb-immunoreactivity exhibited a wide distribution along the neuroaxis of the rat brain, particularly in brain areas that did not cross-match with the neuronal distribution of known valine amide neuropeptides (α-MSH, adrenorphin, secretin, UCN1-2). These brain regions varied in the relative amount of putative novel valine amide peptide immunoreactive material (nmol/μg protein) estimated through a fmol-sensitive solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) raised for P18C5 mAb. Conclusions Our results demonstrate the versatility of a single mAb able to differentiate between two structural subdomains of a single amino acid. This mAb offers a wide spectrum of potential applications in research and medicine, whose uses may extend from a biological reagent (used to detect valine amidated peptide substances in fluids and tissues) to a detoxifying reagent (used to neutralize exogenous toxic amide peptide compounds) or as a specific immunoreagent in immunotherapy settings (used to reduce tumor growth and tumorigenesis) among many others.
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- Benito Antón Palma
- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico. .,Department of Neuroscience, National Institute of Perinatology, Montes Urales # 800, 11000, México D.F., Mexico.
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- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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- Molecular Neurobiology and Addictive Neurochemistry Laboratory, National Institute of Psychiatry, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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Valdés-Tovar M, Escobar C, Solís-Chagoyán H, Asai M, Benítez-King G. Constant light suppresses production of Met-enkephalin-containing peptides in cultured splenic macrophages and impairs primary immune response in rats. Chronobiol Int 2014; 32:164-77. [DOI: 10.3109/07420528.2014.960047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Prenatal ethanol exposure alters met-enkephalin expression in brain regions related with reinforcement: possible mechanism for ethanol consumption in offspring. Behav Brain Res 2014; 274:194-204. [PMID: 25150040 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2014] [Revised: 08/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The endogenous opioid system is involved in ethanol reinforcement. Ethanol-induced changes in opioidergic transmission have been extensively studied in adult organisms. However, the impact of ethanol exposure at low or moderate doses during early ontogeny has been barely explored. We investigated the effect of prenatal ethanol exposure on alcohol intake and Methionine-enkephalin (Met-enk) content in rat offspring. Met-enk content was assessed in the ventral tegmental area [VTA], nucleus accumbens [NAcc], prefrontal cortex [PFC], substantia nigra [SN], caudate-putamen [CP], amygdala, hypothalamus and hippocampus. Pregnant rats were treated with ethanol (2g/kg) or water during GDs 17-20. At PDs 14 and 15, preweanlings were evaluated in an intake test (5% and 10% ethanol, or water). Met-enk content in brain regions of infants prenatally exposed to ethanol was quantitated by radioimmunoassay. Ethanol consumption was facilitated by prenatal experience with the drug, particularly in females. Met-enk content in mesocorticolimbic regions - PFC and NAcc - was increased as a consequence of prenatal exposure to ethanol. Conversely, Met-enk levels in the VTA were reduced by prenatal ethanol manipulation. Prenatal ethanol also increased peptide levels in the medial-posterior zone of the CP, and strongly augmented Met-enk content in the hippocampus and hypothalamus. These findings show that prenatal ethanol exposure stimulates consumption of the drug in infant rats, and induces selective changes in Met-enk levels in regions of the mesocorticolimbic and nigrostriatal systems, the hypothalamus and hippocampus. Our results support the role of mesocorticolimbic enkephalins in ethanol reinforcement in offspring, as has been reported in adults.
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Garduño-Gutiérrez R, León-Olea M, Rodríguez-Manzo G. Different amounts of ejaculatory activity, a natural rewarding behavior, induce differential mu and delta opioid receptor internalization in the rat's ventral tegmental area. Brain Res 2013; 1541:22-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2012] [Revised: 06/25/2013] [Accepted: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Fabbian F, Smolensky MH, Tiseo R, Pala M, Manfredini R, Portaluppi F. Dipper and non-dipper blood pressure 24-hour patterns: circadian rhythm-dependent physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms. Chronobiol Int 2012; 30:17-30. [PMID: 23002916 DOI: 10.3109/07420528.2012.715872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Neuroendocrine mechanisms are major determinants of the normal 24-h blood pressure (BP) pattern. At the central level, integration of the major driving factors of this temporal variability is mediated by circadian rhythms of monoaminergic systems in conjunction with those of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal, hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid, opioid, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone, plus endothelial systems and specific vasoactive peptides. Humoral secretions are typically episodic, coupled either to sleep and/or the circadian endogenous (suprachiasmatic nucleus) central pacemaker clock, but exhibiting also weekly, monthly, seasonal, and annual periodicities. Sleep induction and arousal are influenced also by many hormones and chemical substances that exhibit 24-h variation, e.g., arginine vasopressin, vasoactive intestinal peptide, melatonin, somatotropin, insulin, steroids, serotonin, corticotropin-releasing factor, adrenocorticotropic hormone, thyrotropin-releasing hormone, endogenous opioids, and prostaglandin E2, all with established effects on the cardiovascular system. As a consequence, physical, mental, and pathologic stimuli that activate or inhibit neuroendocrine effectors of biological rhythmicity may also interfere with, or modify, the temporal BP structure. Moreover, immediate adjustment to exogenous components/environment demands by BP rhythms is modulated by the circadian-time-dependent responsiveness of biological oscillators and their neuroendocrine effectors. This knowledge contributes to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of abnormalities of the 24-h BP pattern and level and their correction through circadian rhythm-based chronotherapeutic strategies.
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- Fabio Fabbian
- Section of Clinica Medica, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Via Savonarola 9, Ferrara, Italy
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Miguel Asai MA, Lilian Mayagoitia LM, David García DG, Gilberto Matamoros-Trejo GMT, Marcela Valdés-Tovar MVT, Phillipe Leff PL. Rat brain opioid peptides-circadian rhythm is under control of melatonin. Neuropeptides 2007; 41:389-97. [PMID: 17988732 DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2007.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2007] [Revised: 09/11/2007] [Accepted: 09/12/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Several experiments have revealed an Endogenous Opioid System (EOS)-circadian rhythm. The brain-borne hormone, melatonin (MEL) has been shown to regulate the organism photoperiodic activity and may be implicated in the EOS-circadian rhythm. To explore this hypothesis, we studied the effect of functional pinealectomy on the EOS-circadian rhythm by measuring the immunoreactive content of Met-Enkephalin, Leu-Enkephalin and Synenkephalin in both hypothalamus and hippocampus of the rat brain, using standard radioimmunoassay procedures. Experimental animals exposed to white fluorescent light (WFL) for 15days (<50lux), displayed a disruption of the EOS-circadian rhythm, showing that absence of MEL induced a significant decrease of tissue content of enkephalin peptides at 01:00h during the dark-phase of the 24-h circadian rhythm, when compared to control rats. Functional pinealectomized rats exposed to 4 or 6h period of darkness (used to revert the effects induced by the absence of melatonin) significantly increased the tissue content of ME-IR and LE-IR, when compared to both controls and non-exposed WFL-treated rats. In addition, subcutaneous administration of exogenous melatonin (10, 100, 150, 300, 600microg/kg), in WFL-treated animals produced significant dose-dependent increases of ME-IR in both brain regions tested. Finally, luzindole (melatonin receptor antagonist) administration, was not able to prevent the enkephalin tissue increase, induced with the MEL administration (150microg/kg). This data suggest that MEL not only regulates the EOS-circadian rhythm, but also appears to modulate their synthesis in the rat brain from their respective neurons.
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- M A Miguel Asai
- Laboratorio de Análisis Químicos, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría, Calzada México-Xochimilco #101, Col. San Lorenzo Huipulco, C.P. 14370, México D.F., Mexico.
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Rodríguez-Manzo G, Asai M, Fernández-Guasti A. Evidence for changes in brain enkephalin contents associated to male rat sexual activity. Behav Brain Res 2002; 131:47-55. [PMID: 11844571 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-4328(01)00371-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Indirect evidence suggests that ejaculation might activate endogenous opioid systems, which exert an inhibitory influence on male rat sexual behaviour. The objective of the present study was to search for putative long-term changes in the contents of immunoreactive (IR) Met-enkephalin (IR-Met), Leu-enkephalin (IR-Leu) and opioid octapeptide Met--Arg(6)--Gly(7)--Leu(8) (IR-Oct) in specific brain areas, after the execution of different amounts of sexual activity. Additionally, basal contents of these enkephalins were compared between sexually active (SA) and persistent sexually inactive (SI) rats. Immunoreactivity to enkephalins was determined by radioimmunoanalysis, in the frontal cortex, the hypothalamus and midbrain of SA and SI rats, as well as 24 or 48 h after males had one ejaculation or copulated to exhaustion. Twenty-four hours after sexual activity, there was a generalised increase in enkephalin contents that returned to control values at the 48 h measurement in all brain areas, but the hypothalamus, where IR-Met and IR-Oct remained elevated. No differences in the magnitude of the changes were found between rats that ejaculated once and sexually satiated males. IR-Oct concentration in the hypothalamus of SI rats appeared significantly higher than in SA animals, with no differences in IR-Met and IR-Leu. Results give direct evidence of the activation of endogenous opioid systems by male rat sexual activity. The occurrence of long lasting increases in the contents of IR-Met and IR-Oct in the hypothalamus of rats that copulated was detected. Finally, an intrinsically elevated octapeptide concentration in the hypothalamus of SI rats was found.
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- G Rodríguez-Manzo
- Departamento de Farmacobiologija, Cinvestav, IPN, Calzada de los Tenorios 235, Col. Granjas Coapa, Deleg., D.F. C.P. 14330, Tlalpan, Mexico.
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This paper is the twenty-first installment of our annual review of research concerning the opiate system. It summarizes papers published during 1998 that studied the behavioral effects of the opiate peptides and antagonists, excluding the purely analgesic effects, although stress-induced analgesia is included. The specific topics covered this year include stress; tolerance and dependence; eating and drinking; alcohol; gastrointestinal, renal, and hepatic function; mental illness and mood; learning, memory, and reward; cardiovascular responses; respiration and thermoregulation; seizures and other neurologic disorders; electrical-related activity; general activity and locomotion; sex, pregnancy, and development; immunologic responses; and other behaviors.
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- A L Vaccarino
- Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, LA 70148, USA.
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