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Original article| Volume 34, ISSUE 6, P348-355, September 15, 1993

Effects of cocaine on dopamine receptor gene expression: A study in the postmortem human brain

  • James H. Meador-Woodruff
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    From the Mental Health Research Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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  • Karley Y. Little
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    Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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  • Scott P. Damask
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    From the Mental Health Research Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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  • Alfred Mansour
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    From the Mental Health Research Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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  • Stanley J. Watson
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    From the Mental Health Research Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    ∗ The authors wish to thank Carolyn Work, Rebekah Kuehn, and Jennifer Saul for their enthusiastic technical contributions to this work. The assistance of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina (John D. Butts, M.D., Chief) is gratefully acknowledged.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(93)90178-G
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      Abstract

      The effects of chronic cocaine exposure on dopamine D1 and D2 receptor gene expression in the human brain were studied in postmortem samples from chronic cocaine abusing and matched control subjects. Using in situ hybridization and receptor autoradiography to examine messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA) and binding sites, respectively, neither D1 nor D2 receptor expression was found to be changed in the nucleus accumbens, caudate, putamen, or substantia nigra of the cocaine-exposed subjects. Although chronic cocaine exposure can produce alterations in dopaminergic neurotransmission, sustained compensatory changes in dopamine receptor expression do not appear to occur in the human.

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      Publication History

      Received in revised form: June 3, 1993
      Received: March 3, 1993

      Footnotes

      ☆Dr. Meador-Woodruff is the recipient of a Research Scientist Development Award from NIMH (MH00818). This work was also supported by MH42251 (SJW) and The Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness (KYL).

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3223(93)90178-G

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