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New Findings from University Federal of Sao Paulo in the Area of Alcohols Published

Published in Drug Week, March 18th, 2011

2011 MAR 18 -- New research, 'Nucleus accumbens dopamine D1 receptors regulate the expression of ethanol-induced behavioural sensitization,' is the subject of a report. "Repeated ethanol administration may induce behavioural sensitization, defined as a progressive potentiation of locomotor stimulant effects. This process is associated with neuroadaptations in the mesolimbic pathway and the nucleus accumbens," researchers in Sao Paulo, Brazil report.

"The aim of the present study was to analyse dopamine D1 receptor (D1R) participation in locomotor response to an agonist and an antagonist of the D1R in mice with different levels of sensitization to ethanol....

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